Alexandra Bracken is an author who specializes in Young Adult (or YA) novels. Being basically a young adult herself at the age of 31, she has just been there and just did that. Even though she’s young in age, she’s pretty seasoned in terms of experience. She already has more than ten novels to her …
Tag: Rated PG-13
Time for a Reel MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT review
It’s no coincidence that the Mission: Impossible franchise really took off, in terms of widely agreed upon quality from both the critics and the fans, when Christopher McQuarrie was hired on to direct the Tom Cruise-led espionage action adventure. The McQuarrie/Cruise symbiotic cinematic cohesiveness began ten years ago with Valkyrie (2008) which starred Cruise and …
Time for a Reel MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN review
Ten years ago, the smash hit Broadway musical Mamma Mia! (2008), featuring ABBA’s greatest hits, made its way to theaters and it made a killing. The musical grossed over two billion dollars and the movie brought in somewhere north of 140 million dollars. I’m sure Universal Pictures sang “Money, Money, Money” all the way to …
Time for a Reel SKYSCRAPER review
As far as Alpha Males go, Dwayne Johnson would be right up there at the front of line if you did a lineup of all of Hollywood’s leading men over the last decade. Anyone that can still be seen as intimidating dressed as a Tooth Fairy is full regalia has my vote. Regardless of the …
Time for a Reel UNCLE DREW review
Lionsgate went hard with all of their video promoting of Uncle Drew over the past few months. There’s no doubt that the onslaught of comical clips raised a few eyebrows. I even fell into the trap of being intrigued and curious as to how a movie based on a seemingly silly premise would stand up …
Time for a Reel WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? review
For more than three decades, Fred Rogers captured the minds and hearts of Americans from the age of 3 to 93. The most charming man in a Cardigan captivated his audiences in a simple childlike manner at first glance, but once you listened, I mean really listened, people began to realize that this was a …
Time for a Reel OCEAN’S 8 review
The run was good for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and the rest of the gang over a six-year span as Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen held all of the cards under the direction of Steven Soderbergh. With the franchise running its full course over a decade ago, the creative con seemed to have been forgotten …
Time for a Reel SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY review
Going away from the traditional sequels/prequels still feels pretty weird in the world of Star Wars. Granted, the first time Disney took a chance by going off-book and released Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), audiences were both amazed and pleasantly surprised at this bold new direction. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the …
Time for a Reel BREAKING IN review
If you look at director James McTeigue’s body of work throughout his career, you’d see that he’s all over the place. He made his directorial debut with a surprise action sci-fi drama called V for Vendetta (2005). He followed that up with some lesser-known, and widely panned releases such as Ninja Assassin (2009), The Raven …
Time for a Reel LIFE OF THE PARTY review
Melissa McCarthy has been providing comedic entertainment in some big time hits in theaters over the past several years. She really started to make herself known in the Paul Feig directed comedy, Bridesmaids (2011). The trend of success continued with The Heat (2013), Spy (2015) and even in the Ghostbusters (2016) remake. The constant that …