Category: Review

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel CREED III review

About the film (courtesy of MGM): After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) has been thriving win his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian (Jonathan Majors), resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN review

About the film (courtesy of Netflix): A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary. It’s hard …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel COCAINE BEAR review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500 pound apex predator has ingested …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA review

About the film (courtesy of Marvel Studios): Super-Hero partners Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and the Wasp. Together, with Hope’s parents Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), the family finds themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel KNOCK AT THE CABIN review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel MISSING review

About the film (courtesy of Screen Gems): When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel PLANE review

About the film (courtesy of Lionsgate): Pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island – only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel M3GAN review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma, M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel BABYLON review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. Maybe not quite the best, but Babylon certainly qualifies as “saving my wildest write-up for last in 2022.” As we …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER review

About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, this begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay …