Movie Review "Fences"
Building Fences
August Wilson’s Tony-award winning play makes it to the screen Christmas Day with some compelling performances from its amazing cast.
Hidden Figures No Longer
Hidden Figures, adapted from a nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, is truly one of the most inspiring stories of all time…and space.
Fantastic Beasts is a Fantastic Achievement
A running joke guessed that the final Harry Potter book would be titled “Harry Potter and the End of the Gravy Train.” Well, joke’s on them because J.K. Rowling’s Billionaire Express shows no sign of slowing. With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the train is at Grand Central rather than King’s Cross, introducing both new and old fans to yet another marvelous layer of the Potterverse.
Snowden Goes to Hollywood
Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” offers a unique chronicle of a very tumultuous time in our history. 9/11 changed everything, from the way we travel to the way we view religious freedom. It also changed the way we expected our government to protect us. In the face of such an unspeakable tragedy, “by any means necessary” was an understatement for how the American people wanted to ensure national security.
Star Trek Beyond Adventure
With its fiftieth anniversary a few months away, the crew of the Starship Enterprise, in the Kelvin universe, heads back to this big screen this weekend with a sense of wonder and hope. With a new director and a new mission ahead, Captain Kirk and company will go against the odds – literally – with the thirteenth movie of the franchise. Could this film break the supposedly odd-number movie curse? It’s time to boldly go where into the vastness of space with my review of “Star Trek Beyond”
Daddy’s Home in Time for the Holidays
For your holiday season pleasure, we get to see the oddball pairing of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg together again since their initial chemistry in five years. This time, they are dads competing for the love and affection of their family in the Paramount Pictures comedy Daddy’s Home.
Awakening The Force Within You
Star Wars: The Force Awakens begins thirty years after Return of the Jedi and is ready to take us to that galaxy far, far away
Miss You Already
Don’t Miss This Movie
Miss You Already is a wonderful movie of a friendship that spans decades. Jess (Drew Barrymore) moves from the U.S. to England as a little girl. She is befriended by Milly (Toni Collette). The movie begins with Jess thinking back to her youth, as flashbacks depict the girls as their friendship develops. They shared everything together including kissing their first boy at Milly’s actress mother’s TV set.
Well Worth Spying On The New Tom Hanks Movie
In 1957, painter, Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is shown to be a Russian spy who is caught by the CIA. This is a true story. Steven Spielberg who directs and produces the movie wonderfully depicts the Cold War from both the sides of the Americans and the Russians and Communism in East Germany. He shows the fear and distrust on both sides. The thoughts and back-story of what is happening at the time is very poignant. He depicts how American school children are taught to hide when the bombs come, and he shows the terror of the East Germans as the wall was built. The backstory is well told in order to set the mood of the film.
The Not So Perfect Guy
Leah Vaughn (Sanna Lathan) is a lobbyist who wanted to get married and start a family with her boyfriend, David King (Morris Chestnut). Like many women Leah was looking at her biological clock and thinking that time was passing her by. David, like so many men wasn’t ready to make that commitment. He told her, he’s been ready for marriage due to past family problems that marriages didn’t last. He also emphasized that he didn’t want to lose her. Leah felt that they should no longer be together, so their relationship ended.
