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★★½ In the animated film Ron’s Gone Wrong, Barney Pudowski (Jack Dylan Grazer, Luca) dreads recess since all his classmates have cool high-tech bots, which are walking, talking, digitally connected devices shaped like eggs and reminiscent of the character Wall-E. The bots are acclaimed by their creators as the “perfect companion” and a “whole new...
★★★★ Previous attempts at bringing Frank Herbert’s Dune to the screen have been highly anticipated but met with lukewarm results at best. Director Denis Villeneuve, writing with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth, takes this to heart and presents a sweeping adaptation that will leave audiences highly anticipating the release of Part Two. The Emperor selects...
There are many lessons to be learned from the story of the Velvet Underground, but one of the biggest is just how much you can accomplish without achieving what is generally considered success. Between 1965, when the group began to coalesce in a dingy loft on New York’s Ludlow Street, and 1970, when Lou Reed...
★★★½ Picking up right where 2018’s Halloween left off, Halloween Kills continues to follow Michael Myers on his seemingly never-ending slaughter. Director David Gordon Green follows up with a wildly entertaining slasher flick, delivering on everything a fan of the franchise would have asked for, albeit in the same, slow, and foreboding style that audiences...
★★★ In The Last Duel, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator), one thinks to know exactly what is coming. Medieval accoutrements, gray skies, and a director well known for masculine period vibes; however, this is not the tale of valor that it first appears. The screenplay is co-written by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Nicole...
★★★★½ James Bond is back in No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s final appearance in the nearly 60-year-old franchise. Writer/Director Cary Joji Fukunaga (It) joins veteran 007 screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to create a spectacular film that is a fitting end to Craig’s memorable portrayal. James Bond (Daniel Craig) has left the agency,...
★★½ The Sopranos creator David Chase teams up with Lawrence Konner (Boardwalk Empire) to return to the world of Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark, directed by Alan Taylor (Terminator Genisys). Unfortunately, they fail to create a well-rounded story or make it as engaging as it is disturbing as with the original HBO...
★★★ In Titane, written directed by Julia Ducournau (Raw), the horror-fantasy tells the story of the protagonist woman Alexia, played by Agathe Rousselle, who has a strong affinity for cars; she is injured in a car accident as a child resulting in a titanium plate being placed in her head. Upon leaving the hospital she...
★★★½ Tom Hardy is back, this time not only starring but sharing the writing credits with Kelly Marcel for Venom: Let There be Carnage. His love of the character infuses the story with more life than in the first film. Andy Serkis’ competent direction fills out the presentation, making the sequel more appealing to reluctant...
★★½ The spookiest and cookiest family is back at it again, and this time they are going on a family vacation. Co-directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon return for the sequel to 2019’s, The Addams Family, offering up a different twist for America’s favorite macabre relatives. Much of the cast also makes a return, as...
