Tag: movie reviews
Movie Review: “The Belko Experiment” is sort of like “Battle Royale”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBahQKFjiFI
Movie Review: "The Belko Experiment" (R)
Leave it to colorful screenwriter James Gunn (writer and director of "Slither," "Guardians of the Galaxy," and the upcoming "Guardians of...
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: “Logan” is a somber and effective Wolverine sendoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div0iP65aZo
Movie Review: "Logan" (R)
Few trailers in recent memory have so perfectly represented the overall tone of a movie then that first trailer for "Logan."...
Movie Review: “The Great Wall” is not so great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnsesxk5LF4
Movie Review: "The Great Wall" (PG-13)
The great Yimou Zhang is a masterful visual storyteller, there's no doubt about that. Through the years, he's given...
Movie Review: “John Wick: Chapter 2” features breathtaking action and a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChpLV9AMqm4
Movie Review: "John Wick: Chapter 2" (R)
As expected, this sequel is bigger, louder, and longer than its beloved predecessor, and while not necessarily better,...
Movie Review: “Get Out” offers thrills, hilarity, and timely subtext in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfnevzM9kQ
Movie Review: "Get Out" (R)
Guess who's coming to dinner? Well, in the new racially charged horror-comedy "Get Out," it ain't the Stepford wives, that's...
Movie Review: “Split” benefits from McAvoy and an awesome twist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIpGKumxiGg
Movie Review: "Split" (PG-13)
My Sundance Film Festival adventure put me behind; therefore, I'm late with this one. Having said that, better late than never.
With...
Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Photos by John Pugh
Another Sundance Film Festival has come to a close, and after the snowstorm had settled — which wasn't until about six...
Sundance 2017 Movie Review: “Brigsby Bear”
"Brigsby Bear"
If "Room" and "The Truman Show" had been re-envisioned by the gloriously goofy Lonely Island crew ("Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping") it might...