Kim's Flick Pics
The Circle spins its wheels
“Knowing is good, knowing everything is better,” gushes Tom Hanks as CEO Eamon Bailey in a TED Talk-like presentation to a cheering crowd of...
The Lost City of Z
Movies like The Lost City of Zed are few and far between these days. In this sprawling adventure film, the attention to detail amid the scope of the subject...
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 – Crank Up Your Walkman! Crank up your Walkman, lace up your Reeboks and buckle your seatbelts for one fast and funny ride...
This beast second best
1991’s Beauty and the Beast was the first animated feature nominated for an Oscar and unfortunately, this latest version is destined to remain second...
Great story fails as movie
A United Kingdom – Frustratingly Restrained A compelling story, gifted actors and a gorgeous African setting combine to make what should be a moving and...
Logan tells great story
Unlike many superhero films of late, Logan is refreshingly old-school and human. There is tremendous restraint and maturity in this current X-Men franchise...
Kim's Oscar review
The Academy Awards are always a political football, one where Hollywood feels compelled to make a statement to the world about who and what it values most. Some...
Why Him? is moronic
From the opening segment of a lewd FaceTime chat between the hero and his girlfriend, we know we are in for a silly, predictable, testosterone-driven movie. By...
Review: Passengers
Would you spend your life alone if you were given a paradise? This is the central question Passengers asks and you will find yourself contemplating the premise...
Fences Oscar bound
Fences knocks it over the fence Fences, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson, was written in 1983 and its 1987 Broadway premiere starred James Earl...
LaLa Land is magic
You don’t have to even like musicals to fall in love with LaLa Land. The story follows two aspiring artists – jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling...
Miss Sloane not that smart
Breaking new ground for women in Hollywood, Miss Sloane represents a new kind of female lead – one in which her sex is absolutely secondary to the role....
Moana is not a princess
Not since Mulan has the Disney machine created such a strong and likeable female character. Based on neither fairy tale nor legend, Moana is only the second...
Fantastic Beasts is fantastic
The best thing about the wizarding world of Harry Potter is that all is not as it seems. The secret world of wizards co-exists, but hovers just...
Arrival delivers
In a CNN meets Nietzsche sci-fi tale, Arrival chronicles a realistic alien encounter and walks us through a thought provoking exploration of human existence...
A Strange new world
Forget everything you think you know. Dr. Strange thrusts us down a beautiful and phantasmagorical rabbit hole that merges the reality we know with the multiple...
Inferno not that hot
Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard take another kick at the can in this third and hopefully final segment pitting Cambridge “symbologist” Robert...
Girl power for real
Queen of Katwe Girl power for real. Queen of Katwe tells the true story of a girl from the slum of Katwe (an area in Kampala, Uganda’s capital) who...
A hit you can count on
The Accountant In this ground-breaking film, a man with autism not only leads a successful life as an accountant, but is also an expert martial arts fighter...
Taming fiery dinosaurs
Deep Water Horizon – Taming the dinosaurs It is not easy to create a historically accurate re-telling of a life event while still capturing the human...