Tag: Action

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel TERMINATOR: DARK FATE review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): More than two decades have passed since Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, changed the future, and re-wrote the fate of the human race. Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) is living a simple life in Mexico City with her brother (Diego Boneta) and father when a highly advanced and deadly …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP review

About the film (courtesy of Columbia Pictures): Through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel GEMINI MAN review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): Gemini Man is an innovative action-thriller starring Will Smith as Henry Brogan, an elite assassin, who is suddenly targeted and pursued by a mysterious young operative that seemingly can predict his every move. Despite a couple of major box office stumbles such as Wild Wild West (1999) and …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel ANGEL HAS FALLEN review

About the film (courtesy of Lionsgate): Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat. Gerard Butler isn’t getting any younger, but thanks to a good workout regimen, a bevy of …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel THE KITCHEN review

About the film (courtesy of Warner Bros.): Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the film stars Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as three 1978 Hell’s Kitchen housewives whose mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever – High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a loyal agent of America’s Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw (Statham), a former British military elite operative, first faced off in 2015’s Furious 7, the duo have swapped smack talk and body blows as they’ve tried to take each other …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel STUBER review

About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Fox): When a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) picks up a passenger (Dave Bautista) who turns out to be a cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer, he’s thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he desperately tries to hold onto his wits, his life …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME review

About the film (courtesy of Columbia Pictures): Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. Jon Watt’s Spider-Man: Far from Home is an entertaining summer adventure for teenager Peter Parker as he deals with the fallout from Avengers: Endgame. This was …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel SHAFT review

About the film (courtesy of Warner Bros.): JJ, aka John Shaft Jr. (Usher), may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft (Jackson) agrees …