Anna — 3 Gavels 29% Rotten Tomatoes
As in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Luc Besson finds a beautiful model and ogles her with the camera. Making…
Month: June 2019
Yesterday — 4 Gavels 62% Rotten Tomatoes
Imagine a world where no one knows John Lennon wrote “Imagine.” Then, imagine a world where Ed Sheeran recommends changing “Hey Jude” to…
Thursday Morning Coffee — 6/27/19
Does Brad Pitt look 55 to you? Will we ever see Ad Astra? Set for release in January, then May, and now September…
Doctor Foster — 4 Gavels 85% Rotten Tomatoes
Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias sing to “to all the girls I’ve loved before.” Perhaps not as catchy, here’s “to all the plays…
Toy Story 4 — 4.5 Gavels 97% Rotten Tomatoes
Although Woody and Bo are the stars, a spork will steal your heart. For those who say Toy Story 3 had the perfect…
Friday Morning Coffee — 6/21/19
July brings us Spider-Man and The Lion King. Which others will step up to drag us out of the hot sun into the…
American Woman — 4 Gavels 80% Rotten Tomatoes
American Woman is the real Dark Phoenix. Not in the sense of Marvel Comic character, but as an alcoholic, philandering, deeply-flawed female, who…
Late Night — 4 Gavels 81% Rotten Tomatoes
The smartest “man” in the Late Night TV room is a woman. But what happens when, after 28 years, her comedy turns “educational,”…
Shaft — 2.5 Gavels 33% Rotten Tomatoes
Misogynistic and uneven, it is difficult to imagine this Shaft being made in 2019. Yes, John Shaft II grew up in Harlem, in…
Men In Black: International — 4 Gavels 26% Rotten Tomatoes
Inventive gadgets, creative aliens, and colorful scenes populate Men in Black: International, just like the original. Most critics bemoan the lack of originality,…