Plot: ☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆☆ Overall: 16/20 – A Director: Zack Snyder Actors: Gal Gadot, Ben Afleck, Jason Mamoa, Ezra Miller Yes, yes. I know. This was released AGES ago. Between real life and the holidays, I don’t know where the time has gone. But the important thing now, is to…
Category: Movie Reviews
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Plot: ☆☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆ Overall: 16/20 – A Director: Rian Johnson Cast: Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, John Boyega, Carrie Fisher **Millenium Falcon sized spoilers ahead** Okay, I’m going to admit it. I got lazy. That and the holidays are always an insane time with people coming and going and eating….
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Plot: ☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆☆ Overall: 16/20 – A Director: Patrick Hughes Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Elodie Yung, Gary Oldman Since this has been a year largely of remakes and sequels it’s refreshing to find movies that can still surprise you. Baby Driver was a movie that I…
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Plot: ☆☆ Acting: ☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆ Overall: 9/20 – C Director: Luc Besson Cast: Dane Dehaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna First Impressions: I wanted to like this. I really did. I loved Fifth Element and I really hoped that this would turn into another cult classic. (Which reminds me,…
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Plot: ☆☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆☆ Overall: 17/20 – A Director: Jon Watts Cast: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau **Spider’s web of spoilers** Do you ever look at a word you’ve spelled a hundred times correctly and go “that’s not right?” and yet it…
Baby Driver (2017)
Plot: ☆☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆☆☆ Overall: 19/20 – A **No Spoilers** Talk fast. Drive fast. Live fast. Die fast. That’s the theme for writer/director Edgar Wright’s latest film, Baby Driver. Most known for his work on Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Wright has made an…
Wonder Woman
Plot: ☆☆☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆☆☆ Overall: 20/20 – A **Minimum of spoilers* I’m not going to lie. I’ve been putting off writing up this particular movie even though I saw it on opening night. The fact is, I’m not sure I can’t say anything that hasn’t been said before. For the last…
Baywatch
Plot: ☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆ Overall: 12/20 – B Do you ever walk out of a theater completely bemused? Not really sure what it was you just watched? Something that’s not so horrible you can’t vow never to see it again, but it’s not exactly the height of cinema achievement? Baywatch….
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Plot: ☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆☆☆ Overall: 14/20 – B **Ship in a bottle-sized spoilers** This has been the year of sequels and remakes. And more remakes. And more sequels. Why on earth should the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise be any different? What started off as a simple ride at Disney World…
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Plot: ☆☆☆☆ Acting: ☆☆☆☆☆ Visuals: ☆☆☆☆☆ Music: ☆☆☆☆☆ Overall: 19/20 = A **Not even a Baby Groot sized spoilers** I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot! I am Groot. I am Groot? I am Groot! I am Groot!!! I. am. Groot. You have no idea how tempting it was to just make that…
