Movie Review – The River Wild
Director: Curtis Hanson Starring: Meryl Streep, Joseph Mazzello, David Strathairn, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly Year: 1994 Thrillers in the 90s were something else, and the fun we had scaring…
Book Review – Finders Keepers
Author: Stephen King Year: 2015 Finders Keepers is Book #2 in the Bill Hodges trilogy, bringing us back to Bill’s vigilantism/private investigation, after we met him in Mr. Mercedes. This…
Movie Review – Elemental
Director: Peter Sohn Starring: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen Year: 2023 Calling Elemental a simple combination of Zootopia and Inside Out may be an oversimplification, sure, but it…
Movie Review – The Bad News Bears
Director: Michael Ritchie Starring: Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Jackie Earle Haley Year: 1976 One of my favorite sports movies from my childhood, The Bad News Bears is wrong in all…
Movie Review – Jerry Maguire
Director: Cameron Crowe Starring: Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr. Year: 1996 The first time I watched Jerry Maguire (and it must have been around the time it first…
Movie Review – All Good Things
Director: Andrew Jarecki Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella Year: 2010 All Good Things might be an alright movie, a moderately entertaining time spent in front of your TV,…
Movie Review – The Trench
Director: William Boyd Starring: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, James D’Arcy, Julian Rhind-Tutt Antony Strachan, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Danny Dyer, Ciaran McMenamin Year: 1999 WWII movies get most of the…
Movie Review – Living
Director: Oliver Hermanus Starring: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp Year: 2022 Had I seen it when it came out, Living would have been my favorite film of 2022,…
Movie Review – Stars at Noon
Director: Claire Denis Starring: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn Year: 2022 Man has Margaret Qualley come a long way (downward) since breaking onto the scene in Nice Guys and Novitiate. I…
Movie Review – Greyhound
Director: Aaron Schneider Starring: Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan Year: 2020 A few years ago when AppleTV was new, we had Greyhound, a Tom Hanks WWII movie that only…