Night School — .5 Gavels Rotten 30% Tomatoes
Turn out the lights. Darkness is upon us. When Hollywood figures out that gross is not funny, perhaps comedies will again return to…
Month: September 2018
Little Women — 4 Gavels 43% Rotten Tomatoes
Just one week ago, Friday Morning Coffee noted the quote ” I’m so glad we live in a world, where there are Octobers.” …
Friday Morning Coffee — 9/28/18
Ruin Are you heading to Prague next Spring? If so, stop by and see Margot Robbie and Matthais Schoenaerts as they film…
Smallfoot — 3.5 Gavels 73% Rotten Tomatoes
The trailer is so very good, why am I disappointed? The songs are nice, but not “singing-as-you-leave-the-theater” nice. The characters are cute, but…
Tuesday Morning Tea — 9/25/18
In the never-ending world of “Best” lists, a few weeks ago I noted that Oregon (Tuesday Morning Tea – 9/4/18) just didn’t…
Life Itself — 1.5 Gavels 13% Rotten Tomatoes
Being movie-centric, I confess to not watching a single episode of This Is Us, created by Dan Fogelman. If this is what they…
Friday Morning Coffee — 9/21/18
What a grand sentiment expressed in Anne of Green Gables! If you missed Anne with an E on Netflix, you may wish to…
The Wife — 3 Gavels 84% Rotten Tomatoes
Is this a case of an indie movie in search of a distributor? The Wife premieres at The Toronto Film Festival in September…
Unbroken: Path To Redemption — 3.5 Gavels 21% Rotten Tomatoes
After Angelina Jolie’s 2014 Unbroken, as Paul Harvey says, “. . . and now the rest of the story.” When we last left…
White Boy Rick — 3 Gavels 63% Rotten Tomatoes
I am not a fan of the USA Today synopsis of movies, but their Downside was spot on: The story lacks sympathetic characters, focus…