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Review — Red Sparrow
★★★★☆ Red Sparrow earns four stars in my book. Jennifer Lawrence really does a good job going from “innocent” to trained killer. Charlotte Rampling is absolutely perfect as Matron. She is the one tasked with being the cruel teacher for…
Review — The Contractor
★☆☆☆☆ I like Chris Pine and I like Kiefer Sutherland. The Contractor went on my rental list because they were both in it. Having said that I’m still giving this a single star rating. How can a studio completely screw…
Review — Flyboys
★★★★★ I give Flyboys five stars despite all of the other reviewers who empty their colons on this film. This film captures that particular era of flying better than most. James Franco and Jennifer Decker turn in outstanding performances, not…
Review — Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
★★★☆☆ I was really tempted to give The Secrets of Dumbledore two stars. Hopefully you read my previous review of The Crimes of Grindelwald. This wasn’t a case of bad acting. The actors were all professionals and gave solid performances….
Review — Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
★★★☆☆ The Crimes of Grindelwald attempts to set up a multi-part story exploring the deep dark secrets of the powerful Dumbledore family. I actually own a copy, but don’t read too much into that. I honestly don’t know what possessed…
Review — LBJ (2016)
★★★★★ I gave LBJ five stars because it was a solid four star movie with a little something extra. Actually it had a lot of something extra. I only put a few of the outstanding actors on the tag list….
Review — The Librarian II: Return to King Solomon’s Mines
★★★★★ Return to King Solomon’s Mines kind of had it all, in a TV-PG kind of way given a television movie budget. It had the Indiana Jones aspect of booby trapped ancient temple; the smoking hot bad-ass chick (Gabrielle Anwar);…