Movie Views

3 stars I’ve always been an action movie fanatic. There was a time in my formative movie viewing years when all I needed to know

2 stars Feeling an oncoming existential crisis, Summer (Dana Kippel) convinces four of her girlfriends to go on a desert adventure retreat where they can

1 star Forty-nine years ago, Universal Studios unleashed Jaws on the world, making everyone afraid to go into the ocean. This week, the studio joined

3 ½ stars Pierce Brosnan has tried almost every role imaginable since hanging up his license to kill back with the 2002 James Bond flick

Did people scream when they first saw this famous final scene in The Public Enemy? In a crowded movie house back in 1931, I would

1 star A reclusive survivalist lives with his family in a cabin about as far off the grid as possible. He spends his days training

4 stars There is a familiarity found when watching the first part of writer/director Maryam Keshavaraz’s new movie, The Persian Version, a feeling that although

2 stars This is the way I imagine it: (The phone rings a dozen times. On the 13th ring, Nick Cage Picks up.) Nick Cage:

1 star In his previous two outings as Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile

4 stars Transformation is always a word thrown around when film fans (or the press) start talking about great acting performances. Daniel Day-Lewis ‘transforms’ into

“I’d like to say a few words about a guy I know, a friend of mine. His name is Brian Piccolo.” Nov. 31, 1971. It

3 stars Many good horror movies start by setting up a simple premise, a rule or tradition, or belief that the people on the screen

1 star Many times while watching The Pod Generation, I was tempted to shut it off; the story felt more like a lecture than a

1 star In Shortcomings, Sherry Cola plays Alice, a bright, sassy single grad student looking for love, or at least good sex, in Berklee. It’s

2 ½ stars A frustrated nerd with dorky glasses, a bad combover, and absolutely no luck meeting women goes to a massage parlor, gets a

2 ½ stars Jackie Chan and John Cena made a movie together called Hidden Strike. It was “released” on Netflix on July 28. And if

3 stars Long before Margot Robbie became Barbie or Cillian Murphy became Oppenheimer,  when she was a little girl in Australia, and he was a