Tomb Raider (2018)
Sean
Lara’s journey from bicycle courier to kick-ass adventurer isn’t necessarily believable but it is entertaining. Tomb Raider, a series of games featuring the athletic archaeologist Lara Croft, launched in 1996.…
August 2019
Jonah Hex (2010)
While the plot is undeniably moronic, the whiplash pacing and Josh Brolin’s tongue-in-cheek performance make it bearable. Word-of-mouth and a frigid box-office reception gave me an obvious clue that 2010’s…
The Happytime Murders (2018)
The Happytime Murders sadly fails to live up to the potential of its imaginative premise. If one mentions the name Jim Henson, most people immediately think of The Muppets. And…
Skyscraper (2018)
Writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber has constructed a perfectly acceptable popcorn film. When I first saw the trailer for Skyscraper, the 2018 action film starring Dwayne Johnson, I thought it looked…
Bushwick (2017)
With improved camerawork, a more ambitious scope, and a tighter script, Bushwick could have been a winner. Second year grad student Lucy (Brittany Snow) is traveling home to Brooklyn with…