Spend Halloween with aliens in A Beautiful Star
With spooky seasonal fare like Alien: Covenant, Berlin Syndrome, Get Out, and Under the Skin still scaring the pants off passengers across t... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: IFE Film Review
Baby Driver is thinking fan’s The Fast and the Furious
If the increasingly cartoonish stunts and car chases in the The Fast and the Furious franchise have left you cold over the years, Baby Drive... Continue Reading
Table 19 is stellar seating chart in search of a story
The sunny optimist in me likes to think that, like pizza and sex, there really is no such thing as a truly bad wedding. But the realist in m... Continue Reading
Berlin Syndrome is few bricks short of a perfect wall
Ever read a book that starts off beautifully, totally reels you in with a juicy, page-turning set-up, compelling characters with mood and me... Continue Reading
Schumer and Hawn steal the show in Snatched
It’s no secret that I have a total soft spot for loud, gross-out comedies with female leads. Ghostbusters, Sisters, Bad Moms, The Boss... Continue Reading
Oscar season starts early with pitch-perfect Elis
Telenova superstar Andréia Horta (Liberdade, Chamas da Vida) might not be a household name outside of her native Brazil just yet, but if her... Continue Reading
Plan B is high octane homage to retro action epics
While the terms German-language martial arts action comedy have rarely, if ever, been used in the same sentence, German-language martial art... Continue Reading
Crappy Kong reboot deserves the boot
While I am usually totally cool with Marvel Studios-style expanded universe filmmaking – especially when it yields such badassery as D... Continue Reading
Stars outshine story in disjointed romance Porto
Though he is probably best known to mainstream audiences for his recurring role as Pavel Chekov in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboots, the... Continue Reading
Monster Trucks is celebration of STEAM in Trump era
Jerry Seinfeld once memorably opined that, when it comes to entertainment, there really is “no such thing as fun for the whole family&... Continue Reading
Groundhog Day for teens Before I Fall tumbles badly
I don’t pretend to be an expert on millennial or even post-millennial angst, but I do know a bad teen movie when I see one, and Before... Continue Reading
Race relations get real (scary) in timely Get Out
While jokes about black characters being the first to die in scary movies definitely have some foundation in truth, African Americans have a... Continue Reading
Bittersweet The Great Sasuke pulls no punches
While our current Commander in Chief spent enough time in the wrestling ring over the years to earn a place of honor in the WWE Hall of Fame... Continue Reading
Tale as old as time is new again in Beauty and the Beast
When it comes to mining their past glories for future profits, no one does it better than the House of Mouse. And though Disney has pretty m... Continue Reading
20th Century Women lingers like a dreamy, SoCal sunset
Although the term gets bandied about more often than it probably should in kombucha-swilling hipster circles these days, writer-director Mik... Continue Reading
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