Movie Reviews

When I was in high school, I read a Stephen King story in an English class.  I knew who Stephen King was, of course, but I hadn’t read any of his novels.  He was very much a horror author in my mind, and that didn’t interest me back then.  But then I read this short [&h

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I loved Drive Away Dolls, the 2024 film directed by Ethan Coen and co-written with his wife, Tricia Cooke, so I was thrilled that Mr. Coen and Ms. Cooke were reuniting with star Margaret Qualley for another film so quickly.  (Mr. Coen and Ms. Cooke have called Honey Don’t! the

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In Fountain of Youth, we meet estranged siblings Luke (John Krasinski) and Charlotte (Natalie Portman).  Luke is a charismatic but somewhat shady thief; when the movie opens, he’s stealing a painting, and pretty soon he’s gotten his sister Charlotte into trouble by steali

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Back in October 2022, James Gunn and Peter Safran were announced as co-heads of DC studios, and the two started working on an ambitious plan to relaunch a connected DC universe of films and TV shows.  This new DCU got a soft launch this past year with the animated Creature Commandos

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In Jurassic World: Rebirth, several years have passed since the events of the previous film Jurassic World: Dominion.  Whereas the Jurassic World trilogy of films built up to the development that dinosaurs now roamed all over the globe, Rebirth resets things closer to the more famili

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Brad Pitt stars in F1 playing Sonny Hayes, a talented race car driver who seems addicted to a nomadic, no-commitments lifestyle.  But that changes when his former F1 teammate Rubén Cervantes (Javier Bardem), now a team owner, convinces Sonny to return to F1 and drive for him.  It s

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