Vice — 1 Gavel 64% Rotten Tomatoes
Should I call the Butler County Sheriff’s Office fraud department or their vice squad? Consistently I complain about accuracy in movies. The director…
Month: December 2018
Friday Morning Coffee — 12/28/18
As we take one last look at Christmas and 2018, here is the retrospective for the 2018 TMJ column. To compare, for 2017,…
Second Act — 3.5 Gavels 42% Rotten Tomatoes
Second Act asks the question whether street smarts can ever equal book smarts. It also asks whether a relationship can ever be built…
Mary Queen of Scots — 3 Gavels 60% Rotten Tomatoes
If you want historical accuracy in today’s movie-world of political correctness, it is a two-step process. First, see the movie. Next, go read…
Bumblebee — 4 Gavels 93% Rotten Tomatoes
Merry Christmas from Transformers by Hasbro! If only Bumblebee decorated a Christmas tree, this movie could compete with Die Hard for one of…
Aquaman — 4 Gavels 68% Rotten Tomatoes
Not often does the Queen of Atlantis wash ashore next to a lighthouse. So begins a love story that connects the land and…
Friday Morning Coffee — 12/21/18
When the best movie of January may be about a lost dog, it may be a month for the dogs, so to speak. …
Mary Poppins Returns — 4 Gavels 79% Rotten Tomatoes
If Mary Poppins Returns doesn’t bring a smile to your face, you may have some Ebenezer Scrooge in your heart. Or, maybe some…
The Mule — 3 Gavels 59% Rotten Tomatoes
Earl Stone sums up The Mule saying, “I could buy anything, but I couldn’t buy time.” If, perhaps, the life of a drug…
Vox Lux — 2.5 Gavels 61%Rotten Tomatoes
If Vox Lux roughly translates to the “voice of light,” why is this movie so dark? At the risk of being sacreligious, I…