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‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ | Movie Review
“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” Being the bibliophile I am, I picked up Ransom Rigg’s “Miss Pergrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” because the cover intrigued me. Also a lover…
Read More‘Sully’ | Movie Review
“Sully” Flies High Clint Eastwood is no-nonsense. There is no doubt about it. One need only watch the movies he’s appeared in, the movies he’s directed like “Unforgiven” and “Million…
Read More‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ | Movie Review
Florence Foster Jenkins (starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg) Grade: A One nightmare that professional performers probably have from time to time is that people are really laughing at…
Read More‘Ghostbusters’ | Movie Review
We Ain’t Afraid of No Sequel; Just Puzzled at Times I ain’t afraid of no sequel. But I was a little skeptical going in. I wasn’t expecting much from this…
Read More‘The BFG’ | Movie Review
Spielberg’s Presentation of Dahl’s “The BFG” is big, fun and good! Having always been an avid reader of Roald Dahl’s work, I cautiously approached Steven Spielberg’s adaptation, expecting there to…
Read More‘Batman vs. Superman’ | Movie Review
Batman vs. Superman is rated PG-13 and runs 151 minutes Grade: C- I didn’t know what to expect when I attended the early screening of Batman vs. Superman. I knew…
Read More’45 Years’ | Movie Review
Cast: Charlotte Rampling Tom Courtenay Director: Andrew Haigh Grade: A In this day and age, a time when the short attention span of theater goers is catered to, we sometimes…
Read MoreMOVIE REVIEW: Carol among year’s best
Cast of “Carol” Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird Sarah Paulson as Abby Gerhard Kyle Chandler as Harge Aird Jake Lacy as Richard Carrie Brownstein as…
Read MoreMOVIE REVIEW |’The Good Dinosaur’ is Better Than Good
Starring: Frances McDormand, Jack Bright, Jack McGraw, Jeffrey Wright, Maleah Nipay-Padilla, Marcus Scribner, Peter Sohn, Raymond Ochoa, Ryan Teeple Director: Peter Sohn Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Family Rating: PG Runtime: 100 min Grade: A- Although the folks from Disney-Pixar have always gone above and beyond in my…
Read MoreMOVIE REVIEW: Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 2
Grade: A (or newbie to the series) Director: Francis Lawerence Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Willow Shields,…
Read MoreMOVIE REVIEW: There Are a Few Things to Love about ‘Love the Coopers’
Grade: C+ Director: Jessie Nelson Starring: Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Amanda Seyfried, Anthony Mackie, Marisa Tomei, Jake Lacy, June Squibb Rated: PG-13 for thematic…
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