Happy Birthday Maximus! You’re Now 20-Years-Old! 20 years ago, director Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe both released his epic “Gladiator,” which won five Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Crowe), Best Costume […]
Gladiator
Blue Story
In this riveting poem, friends become enemies, and violence has consequences. In my time travels, I’ve come across many African-American dramas about violence in the ghettos like John Singleton’s “Boyz n The […]
Arkansas
In his directorial debut, Tarantino is Clark Duke’s middle name. Clark Duke is known for starring in a number of movies, including “Superbad,” “Sex Drive,” Kick Ass,” “Hot Tub Time Machine,” “The […]
Extraction
A Netflix thriller with Chris Hemsworth, movie formulas, suspenseful dangers, and strong emotions. The latest Chris Hemsworth-starring action thriller “Extraction” follows the same action movie formula with the hero recovering from a […]
True History of the Kelly Gang
The actors are true, even if the movie fibs a bit. You know who Ned Kelly was. He was an Australian bushranger, who led a gang of criminals known as the Kelly […]
Trolls: World Tour
This animated sequel removes its split ends, and makes a much better hairstyle. I don’t know what kind of good luck charm I have, because so far this year, sequels to movies […]
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness
This animal documentary sinks its claws into the people and tigers. Ever since the COVID-19 epidemic, I’ve heard all the talk about how popular the new Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, […]
Coffee & Kareem
Just be glad this ugly cop comedy doesn’t last for “48 Hours.” I remember saying in my review of “Like a Boss:” “Something tells me I might see something worse this later […]
Delicatessen, The City Lost Children, and Amelie
French cinema at its goofiest and dazzling level. I really passion the bizarre and wacky humor and visual world of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a French filmmaker, who provides us some of the […]
Cotton Club, 1900, Night Moves, MacBeth, Marvin Gardens, and Miami Blues
Polanksi, De Niro, Coppola, Baldwin, Nicholson, and Hackman-all part of some past selections. A friend of mine has loaned me some of his DVDs from his collection, and given our Coronavirus nightmare […]
