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Elvis (2022)

Elvis (2022)

I had very high, if measured anticipation for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. The trailer dropped at a time that I (like most of the world) was positively thirsting for some...

Linda
The Post (2017)

The Post (2017)

Meryl Streep stars as real-life publisher Kay Graham, who “inherits” the reins of the Washington Post after the death of her husband. Regarded by the boys’ club of men...

Vickie
Sully (2016)

Sully (2016)

Imagine being judged on 208 seconds of your life. This is what happens when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), a mild-mannered, cool-as-a-cucumber commercial airline pilot, managed to avert a...

Linda
Inferno (2016)

Inferno (2016)

Exhausting and not especially engaging, Inferno is yet another installment in the series of big-screen adaptations of the novels by Dan Brown. This time around, Langdon teams with a...

Vickie
Bridge of Spies (2015)

Bridge of Spies (2015)

That is not to say that Spielberg doesn’t know how to make an entertaining historical film. Bridge of Spies, after an exceptionally sluggish first half hour or so, is...

Linda
Big (1988)

Big (1988)

Big is an iconic movie for anyone who grew up in the 80s. You can’t eat a piece of baby corn without imagining Tom Hanks nibbling it daintily like...

Jennifer
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

Emma Thompson, turning in what is easily one of her richest and most complex performances, stars as P.L. Travers, the seriously sour, exceedingly stubborn and altogether unpleasant British author...

Vickie
Angels & Demons (2009)

Angels & Demons (2009)

As the closing credits rolled on director Ron Howard’s follow-up/prequel to The Da Vinci Code, my movie-going pal leaned over to me, pointed at the screen and said, “Know...

Vickie
The Da Vinci Code (2006)

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Lying dead on the screen and lacking momentum almost entirely, the movie version of The Da Vinci Code takes what should be a suspense-filled treasure hunt and turns it...

Vickie
Catch Me if You Can (2002)

Catch Me if You Can (2002)

Catch Me tells the so-unbelievable-it-can-only-be-true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. (the eternally youthful Leonardo DiCaprio) a con man of the highest caliber, who happened to pull his greatest scams...

Linda