Elton John is a worldwide superstar of music and style, and with Paramount’s Rocketman, John’s story of overcoming is available to everyone. Played by Taron Egerton (Kingsman, Eddie the Eagle), John’s story of broken relationships leads us through his adolescence and young adulthood to the stage and back from the brink of destruction. Audiences of…
Martha is dying, so she moves into a retirement community to spend her last days. She meets her neighbors, works to adjust, and discovers that extracurricular activities are mandatory. So, she starts a cheer squad as an “old lady.” Like Grumpy Old Men or Cocoon, Poms plays with the attitudes and situations around growing older…
A remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Steve Martin and Michael Caine), The Hustler follows the accidental meeting and unlikely partnership between con women Brit Josephine Chesterfield (Anne Hathaway) and American Penny Rust (Rebel Wilson) as they have a dual of wits and worlds, aimed at conning tech wiz kid Thomas Westerburg (Alex Sharp). Comedic in…
I’m a fan of Jason Sudeikis so I signed up for a spin through Driven, his semi-serious look at how a con man turned up as an informant for the government while twisting John DeLorean (creator of that car) all about. It’s funny, sad, and meandering, with a particularly strong reminder that greed rarely gets…
Part I: The Spoiler – Free Part I’m not going to assume everyone reading this has actually seen the film yet – but you should get caught up quickly before Marvel switches gears! When Avengers: Infinity War closed, I recognized the distinct feeling in the pit of my stomach. I first felt it as a…
John Rhys Meyers and Francesca Eastwood star in Awake, a film about a man with amnesia who may or may not be a serial killer. When John Doe (Rhys Meyers) comes under the care of Eastwood’s nurse, he finds his way out of the hospital – and away from the pursuit of FBI agent Frank…
Your appreciation for Pokemon Detective Pikachu will depend on two things: How much do you know and enjoy about the Pokemon phenomenon? How funny do you think Ryan Reynolds is? If you are completely ignorant of Pokemon lore, and/or you think that Ryan Reynolds is just a pretty face (so his voice doesn’t matter that…
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, Batman: Hush brings all of the main heroes and villains from the Batman universe together in a direct-to-home media story. With voice work by Jason O’Mara, Jennifer Morrison, Jerry O’Connell, Rebecca Romijn, Rainn Wilson, and others, the film’s visuals seamlessly…
?You have three choices: die young, life in prison, or start talking.?– Daryle Lamont Jenkins Watching Guy Nattiv?s Skin is like watching brutally violent, incredibly profane lyrical poetry on screen. As white supremacist Bryon Widner, Jaime Bell delivers the performance of the year, re-enacting the racist, sexist, profane twenties of a real-life bigot. While a…
In Deon Taylor’s (Traffik) The Intruder terror is aimed at suburbia, with young African Americans Scott and Annie Howard (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good) buying the home of older white Charlie Peck (Dennis Quaid), who has a serious obsession with nothing about his home changing. But that is only the beginning of a horrific downward…
