“The Addams Family 2” is an animated sequel to the first animated movie. This one has most all the same actors returning to voice the same oddball characters as before. So, if the first animated “The Addams Family” movie was your cup of poison, than you are about to hit the jokey jackpot of quirky animated goofiness.
“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is a follow-up movie to the first “Venom” picture released in 2018. The comic book character Venom originated in the Marvel Comics series about Spiderman. But there are few spiders in this web of carnage. Instead, movie leans on investigative reporters and serial killers locked in a battle of symbiote supremacy. If you don’t know what that means, then read on… Read more
In 2018, David Gordon Green’s Halloween, starring icon Jamie Lee Curtis, killed at the box office, earning more than $250 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing chapter in the four-decade franchise and setting a new record for the biggest opening weekend in history for a horror film starring a woman. Read more
In Latin, Alma Mater means nourishing/bounteous mother. I tell you this because Maren Eggert, one of the film’s two main stars, plays a woman named Alma. Alma, in fact, nourishes the thirst for knowledge within the artificial life she has agreed to study.
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May I start by asking filmmakers to help me out? Please stop having people shove their heads into the toilet, vomiting out their stomach-churning panic and dread every time they’re upset! I’ve seen more heads in toilets than I ever saw after a frat party! I, for one, would like to say that it’s getting old.
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Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Written by: Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, David Strathairn and Toni Collette
Rated: R
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Pauli Murray is such an outstanding person that I’d like to know what mistake I made in life for having never heard of her. There is no way to sum up this fantastic human being in a 91-minute film, but directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West did a phenomenal job of introducing the subject of their movie with what time they had.
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I don’t want to say this, but perhaps it’s time Clint Eastwood swats that acting bug away from himself. If the creativity is still within him, he may want to consider staying behind the lens.
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“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is an interesting look at the rise and fall of the Bakkers, a televangelist couple who built an empire and saw it crumble around them. They both have warm Northern Minnesota exteriors that make them seem likable and trustworthy. But the eyes that were fixed on a Heavenly gaze would distract from the money skimmed from the ‘church’ donations. Tammy Faye and her eye make-up made them famous, and the fall from grace gave them both a black eye.
“CopShop” takes a page out of the standard ‘Manual of Nominal Action Thrillers’. But it makes just enough scribbles in the margins to make it a decently slick movie. All of the ingredients are standard, and the cooking instructions are also straightforward. Take a basic format: hit man is out to kill his target, and a good cop wants to stand in the way. But then mix in some fresh ideas (it all takes place in a police station), and some off-the-wall characters (another hit man shows up delivering balloons), and it makes the bat guano fly! Read more
