• November 1, 2019
• At Home, Drama

In the trailer for Harriet, there is a tease of a visually arresting climactic scene showing abolitionist Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo) cocking a rifle and firmly ordering, “Ready?” to...

• October 11, 2019
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

For a movie with so much talent in front of and behind the camera, it is hard to not get frustrated when you see potential for an exciting sci-fi...

• October 5, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Gremlins was one of my favorite movies growing up, and I’m happy to report that it’s just as much fun 35 years after its release as it was when...

• October 5, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

I remember being insanely excited when they announced the release of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, but when I finally saw it, my reaction was decidedly “meh”.  It simply...

• September 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

There is an outstanding opening sequence that has astronaut/space-antenna worker Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) tumbling ass-over-teakettle from tens of thousands of feet above the earth as the antenna explodes...

• September 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Brad Pitt and his perpetually twitchy emotional-barometer lower lip (wanna know how he’s feeling or thinking? just watch the lip!) star as even-keeled Roy McBride, an astronaut whose most...

• September 16, 2019
• At Home, Horror

Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) is an unassuming woman who works as a vet tech in the town where she grew up. When a group of teenagers asks her to...

• August 30, 2019
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Falling somewhere between the quality of the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy (very good) and the latest King Kong film (poo), the reimagined Godzilla films are yet another...

• August 29, 2019
• At Home, Comedy

Brittany (Jillian Bell) is a 27-year-old party girl in New York, who sleeps half the day, has one of those jobs (ticket taker at a theater) where is in...

• August 23, 2019
• At Home, Drama

I can count on single digits how many mentally or physically disabled actors I’ve seen in major film or television productions, so it is always refreshing to see a...

• July 19, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

This “true story based on an actual lie” is a lovely, very personal film written and directed by Chinese-American Lulu Wang. Based on an incident involving her own grandmother,...

• July 9, 2019
• At Home, Horror

While watching the remake of Pet Sematary, I found myself thinking, “Was the original movie as bad as this? Or maybe the source material is terrible, and I just...