Batman (1989)
There is no denying that Tim Burton’s Batman is a marvel of art and set design, and if nothing else, quite the piece of eye candy. However, while the story-line is functional enough to still be...
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming represents the third time in this young century that Marvel’s flagship superhero has been attempted on the big screen. While it’s understandable that Sony wouldn’t just let a sure-shot property go to waste,...
The Founder (2016)
Set primarily in the 1950s, we find Ray Kroc (Keaton, Spotlight) is a struggling traveling salesman trying to peddle an electric milkshake mixer that promises to spark sales by increasing the supply by shortening the wait...
Spotlight (2015)
In 2001, the Boston Globe’s new editor-in-chief is Marty Baron (Schreiber, Pawn Sacrifice), a Jewish media exec coming in from Miami to take over the reins of a paper that has always catered to a...
Minions (2015)
Minions proves that a flavorful and well-used spice can turn a good meal to great, but that doesn’t mean it would make for a good main course. The Minions of the title refer to the...
Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
“A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing” This anonymous quote comes from something written on a note-card taped to the dressing room mirror of Birdman‘s protagonist, Riggan Thomson (Keaton, Need for...
Mr. Mom (1983)
After breadwinner Jack Butler (Keaton) gets laid off from his job, his wife Caroline (Garr) heads out to make a living while he stays home with the three kids. Jack immediately finds out that being a...
First Daughter (2004)
Forest Whitaker returns with yet another film aimed at female audiences, this time going for a younger crowd with First Daughter, the latest in a series of seemingly never-ending tales about the repression of self-identity that...
Batman Returns (1992)
I remember when I was much younger being completely entranced by this sequel to the mega-blockbuster, Batman, for its darkly complex, psychological world of gray-area shades of good vs. evil. Watching it today, I wince...
Jackie Brown (1997)
Based on the Elmore Leonard book, “Rum Punch”, a flight attendant (Grier, Foxy Brown) for a Mexican airline is smuggling up money to Compton from her criminal boss’s (Jackson, Trees Lounge) gun selling operation. She gets busted by...