Get ready for Mark Wahlberg’s made-for-Netflix flick. “Spenser Confidential” looks and feels like a made-for-Netflix movie withs its photography, narrative, and nonstop action; and it is. But it’s also a funny and […]
Spenser Confidential
The Burnt Orange Heresy
This picture isn’t worth a thousand words. The most dazzling art movies I’ve seen this past decade include “Renoir,” “Tim’s Vermeer,” and “Never Look Away.” These films rank with the giants, because […]
Wendy
This independent version grows up way too fast. Writer/director Benh Zeitlin, the genius behind the dazzling “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” has made “Wendy,” an alternate version of the “Peter Pan” story […]
Onward
Far from a Pixar classic, but Holland and Pratt have their own magic. Disney and Pixar’s latest entry “Onward” has a similar vein as “Zootopia,” because it takes place in a parallel […]
The Jesus Rolls
This spin-off/remake wastes the iconic character and rolls gutter balls. “The Big Lebowski” will always be one of the Coen Brothers’ most extraordinary and nostalgic masterpieces of this or any other century. […]
Sonic the Hedgehog
Forget the formulaic road trip cliches, the redesign is fun and Jim Carrey is comical. Video game movies have a difficult time being accepted by film critics, because of their choices […]
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
In this colorful sequel, Shaun gets a Space Odyssey. Maybe it was for the best that “Missing Link” took home the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, because lately stop motion films […]
Spartacus
An epic classic in the recently departed legend’s filmography. Kirk Douglas, one of Hollywood’s remaining Golden Age stars has sadly passed away at the age of 103. He’s one of the lucky […]
Birds of Prey
At this point, Harley Quinn is DC’s feminine Deadpool. Unlike “Suicide Squad,” “Birds of Prey” gives Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn a real character study, a trippy narrative, and a lot of […]
Bad Boys for Life
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence star in the best of the three films. This past decade we were given a number of sequels that took about a decade or two to come […]
