Like trying to enjoy a good meal on a plate under a locked glass box.

A platter best suited for your local McDonald’s.

There has been an annoying trend in recent years to split up the adaptations of the final books in popular series into two or more movies. Whereas it made perfect sense for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows because there was just too much content for one movie, it was just milking it to have […]

Brooklyn marks the transformation of Saoirse Ronan into one of Hollywood’s brightest and most talented young stars.

Spotlight is every bit as gripping and dramatic as All the President’s Men.

British spy 007 breaks ranks to follow a clue leading him into his own past in the poorly-conceived Spectre. Daniel Craig returns for his fourth appearance as Britain’s top secret agent, James Bond. This time around, he’s on a personal mission to expose a sinister organization, Spectre, run by a shadowy figure named Franz Oberhauser […]

A mother and her young son depend entirely on one another to get through each day in the astonishing film Room. I need to warn everyone right up front that there’s essentially no way to discuss this film without exposing a few details of its early plot; this shouldn’t alter your enjoyment of it. Seven […]

A riveting true-life story of how our network news was forever changed by the politics that surrounded it.

A washed-up music manager finds renewed hope in the middle of Afghanistan in the dreadfully disjointed Rock the Kasbah. Richie Lanz (Bill Murray) used to be somebody. He once managed all of the big-name acts of the 1970s, but those days are gone and buried, along with Lanz’s career. These days, he’s reduced to living […]

The visionary leader of Apple pulls no punches ensuring that his ideas and insights are followed to the last detail in the buggy biopic Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) was a man on a tireless mission to recast the perception of technology. Where others saw gizmos and gadgets, Jobs saw evolutionary cosmic beauty. This was […]

A 12-year-old boy is kidnapped from the local orphanage and embarks on a fantastical journey in the recklessly reimagined Pan. J.M. Barrie‘s beloved character Peter Pan returns for another in a long list of  many remakes, reboots and reimaginings. To date, I’ve enjoyed none of them, including the iconic 1953 animated Disney film. I did love both 2004’s […]

A young single father has to swallow his pride and accept the unthinkable after the family house is repossessed in 99 Homes. Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is like countless other typical hard-working Americans. He lives paycheck to paycheck, taking whatever construction work that he can find to keep his family in the only house that […]