About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Children can be such monsters. After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by …
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Time for a Reel LISA FRANKENSTEIN review
About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): A coming of RAGE love story from acclaimed writer Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body (2009)) about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous …
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 …
Time for a Reel FREAKY review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of The Butcher (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her …
Time for a Reel POKÉMAN: DETECTIVE PIKACHU review
In the mid-1990s a video game phenomenon was born that was known as Pokémon. Known in Japan as Pocket Monsters, this game consumed the free time of a massive amount of people. In addition to the video games, there have been books, animated films and television shows. Now comes a live-action film version with a …
Time for a Reel BEN IS BACK review
Peter Hedges has been slowly building is portfolio of works while trying to bring focus to the everyday struggles of the average American family. Guiding Steve Carell in Dan in Real Life (2007), Hedges brought a lighthearted, yet touching story about a widowed father trying to raise three girls. In The Odd Life of Timothy …
Time for a Reel BLOCKERS review
Kay Cannon has done a lot of writing for NBC’s 30 Rock and she wrote the screenplays for all three Pitch Perfect movies. Cannon clearly has the talent needed to bring laughs from the audience is all that she does. Now she has progressed to the next step, directing. Making her directorial debut with the …