Solo: A Star Wars Story?is the eighth movie named?Solo?since 1969, but that doesn’t make it a bad movie. It has a 71% rating on RottenTomatoes but that doesn’t make it a slightly-above-average movie. It was first directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and finished by legend Ron Howard, but that doesn’t make it a…
Road trips movies are inevitably about the forces that pull us apart and/or draw us together. Boundaries, from writer-director Shana Feste, uses this vehicle to look at three generations of a family in need of both distance and reunion. Laura (Vera Farminga) has a problem setting limits, as is seen in the fact that she…
In my review of Ocean?s Thirteen, I opined, ?The role of women in the Ocean?s movies is, at best, problematic.? I wondered if Ocean?s 8 would ?redeem the legacy from its sexist past.? After watching, I?m not sure I know the answer to that. Unlike the recent remake of Ghostbusters, the all-female-star-cast movie which 8…
With the release of SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, Disney wants to take you back in time to meet a young Han Solo before he even thinks about joining the Rebellion. However, with struggling box office receipts, even they were left reeling by the film’s mixed response. (Could there actually be a Star Wars film…
Pressing On: The Letterpress Film is a look at what many consider pass?, and the people who still love and preserve the art involved in letterpress.
Incredibles 2 is a fantastic way to spend a couple hours in an air-conditioned theater.? Whether it holds up to fourteen years of waiting will depend on your personal perspective.
Incredibles 2 continues the story of the Parr family from The Incredibles. While it is ostensibly a superhero story, at its heart this is a film about family and especially about parenting as children go through all the changes of growing up.
?This is what you?d like to see in nature.? Gardens bring us pleasure, even if we have to work to keep them beautiful. Gardens bring a bit of nature close to us, even if it is in an artificial setting. But Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf seeks to make gardens that reflect nature. Filmmaker Thomas…
This is a decent adaptation and abridgment of the play. (Bear in mind that purists will rarely be happy with adapting the Bard.)
First Reformed?tells the story of Toller (Ethan Hawke), a former military veteran and pastor of the First Reformed Church.? Preparing to celebrate their 250th?anniversary, the church has become largely ceremonial, with most parishioners having moved over to the local megachurch, led by charismatic Pastor Jeffers (Cedric the Entertainer).?When tragedy strikes, Toller finds himself torn between…
