Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
The Rise of Skywalker is a bit like the final season of “Game of Thrones”: it restlessly tries to tie up all of its loose ends in its finale without allowing for the proper...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Into Darkness) strips away the lumbering effect of the Star Wars prequels and gets back to the golly-gee-whiz action-fantasy we’ve all come to know and love from the original Star Wars (aka A New Hope), and while...
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness is director J.J. Abrams’s (Super 8, Mission Impossible III) follow-up to his commercially and critically acclaimed reboot of the iconic science fiction series, Star Trek, and should largely please fans of the more...
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
I’ll preface this review with an admission. I do feel a bit guilty about giving the third Mission: Impossible movie as high a rating as I do. After giving the matter a great deal of consideration,...
Joy Ride (2001)
I am a little surprised that some of the professional critics give high marks to this slick trash. Since I like to review movies, instead of giving a good director credit no matter what...
Armageddon (1998)
The plot: An asteroid the size of Texas is hurtling towards Earth, which will surely result in the termination of all life on the planet. The high-ups in NASA devise a plan to split...