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Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children – X-Men Light Miss Peregrine’s School For Peculiar Children is awful and it didn’t have to...
The Mediocre Seven
The Magnificent Seven – One dusty brawl What happens when you take seven movie stars, put them on horses and give them an unlimited number of guns?...
Paranoid about privacy
Snowden: privacy vs. security Whether you believe Snowden to be a hero or a traitor, this film is guaranteed make you more paranoid about your privacy. Snowden...
Sully a reluctant hero
On Jan.15, 2009, New Yorkers and people around the world were riveted to their television sets as a drama involving an aircraft in New York City unfolded. US...
War Dogs is best in show
At the beginning of War Dogs, Miles Teller's character, David Packaouz, narrates over visuals of soldiers fighting. Dollar signs populate the screen and he...
Bad Moms is just bad
The atmosphere in the movie theatre was like a strip club — hundreds of women dressed in their finest, loaded down with dollar bills and ready for action....
Kubo is cinematic artistry
Kubo and the Two Strings “If you must blink, do it now!” young Kubo instructs an enchanted audience in the village. We are wise to heed his words...
A celebration of mediocrity
Florence Foster Jenkins In a famous parable, a small child shouts out, “The emperor has no clothes!” thereby breaking the spell of a mass...
Cafe Society lavishly bland
There are a few reasons to take the time to see Woody Allen’s latest offering Café Society. You are obsessed with the glamour of 1930s Los...
Jason Bourne is relentless
Can’t get to a carnival this summer? Still want to ride a roller coaster? Jason Bourne is the movie for you. The one word that comes to mind when watching...
Star Trek light, campy fun
There have been 13 Star Trek movies. Star Trek Beyond is the third film in the latest iteration of the revived series and boldly goes into a previously...
Movie bogged down
Free State of Jones gets bogged down In the swamp When a four-time Oscar nominated director does a Civil War drama starring one of today’s hottest leading...
Resurgence is a Regurgence
Thank you Independence Day Resurgence for helping us invent a new word — regurgence. The definition is “an odious regurgitation operating under the...
Tarzan swings (and bunts)
The Legend of Tarzan Does the world really need another Tarzan movie? Civilizations, attitudes and mores evolve and ideas that were perfectly acceptable in 1912...
Forgetful Dory unforgettable
The most interesting character to emerge from 2003’s blockbuster Finding Nemo was Dory, the blue Tang fish with chronic memory loss, voiced by Ellen...
Devious genius
Just when you thought the Jane Austen catalogue has been fully explored on film, a little gem like Love and Friendship emerges. Based on her novella, Lady...
Movie plot all twisted
Now You See Me 2 Everyone loves a good plot twist, something you didn’t see coming that makes you re-think everything you had seen. What no one likes is a...
Minimalistic extravagance
Blackway Minimalism is “a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity.” The...
Looking glass has cracks
Alice Through The Looking Glass What do you get when you combine a star-studded cast, $170 million and a script that could have been written by a bored, angsty...
Review: The Nice Guys
Anyone over 50 will wax sentimental at being transported back to the ‘70s in this loving homage to a good, old-fashioned buddy picture. Younger people...