Tag: adventure
Movie Review: “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” is quite the pleasant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_TJKwJwN0E
Movie Review: "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" (PG-13)
If you can get past a generic subtitle whose sole purpose seems to be the assurance that...
Movie Review: “The Dark Tower” feels like a condensed version of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjwfqXTebIY
Movie Review: "The Dark Tower" (PG-13)
Full disclosure: I've never read Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series (I know, I know, I have no excuse)....
Movie Review: “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” aka “Peter Parker’s Day Off,” is a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39udgGPyYMg
Movie Review: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (PG-13)
Marvel gets "Spider-Man" back on track with "Spider-Man: Homecoming," a breezy, joyful, smile-inducing movie that owes just as much to the...
Movie Review: “The Mummy” is mediocre but hardly Tom Cruise’s worst...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjHgzkQM2Sg
Movie Review: "The Mummy" (PG-13)
"The Mummy" is comparable to the Brendan Fraser reboot in that both films feel like second-rate Indiana Jones knockoffs. The...
Movie Review: “Beauty and the Beast” makes the leap from animation...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvW_L8sTu5E
Movie Review: "Beauty and the Beast" (PG)
Disney’s animated-feature-turned-live-action-feature craze continues with director Bill Condon’s flesh-and-blood adaptation of the Mouse House’s much beloved 1991 classic,...
Movie Review: “Kong: Skull Island” may be a little small in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44LdLqgOpjo
Movie Review: "Kong" Skull Island" (PG-13)
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts follows up his itty bitty 2013 independent debut "Kings of Summer" with a movie that features an entirely...
Movie Review: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” out-prequels the prequels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI
Movie Review: "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (PG-13)
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
Cue opening crawl.
No opening crawl.
Wait ... what?!
That's...
Movie Review: “Assassin’s Creed” greatly benefits from Michael Fassbender’s involvement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4haJD6W136c
Movie Review: "Assassin's Creed" (PG-13)
Full disclosure: I'm not a gamer. Therefore, I went into "Assassin's Creed" simply as a curious moviegoer. In the end,...
Movie Review: “The Magnificent Seven” is more like the sub-par seven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RBA0xoaWU
Movie Review: "The Magnificent Seven" (PG-13)
"Training Day" director Antoine Fuqua is back with a remake of the famed John Sturges epic from 1960, which...
Movie Review: “The BFG” might not be Spielberg’s best but it’s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1fZg0hhBX8
Movie Review: "The BFG" (PG)
This collaboration between Steven Spielberg and the late, great screenwriter Melissa Mathison (the two previously worked together on a little...