Classic children’s book adaptation from writer of “Frozen” shockingly bad
By Erik Jimenez I have never read Madeleine L’Engle seminal 1961 children’s novel, “A Wrinkle in Time”. It was apparently required reading many a K-8…
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New “Death Wish” remake hurt by unfortunate release timing
By Erik Jimenez The original “Death Wish” from 1974 is considered an action classic to many of today’s filmgoing audiences, especially those whose political views…
New Sci-Fi Horror film from “Ex-Machina” director surpasses expectations
By Erik Jimenez Back in spring of 2015, “28 Days Later” and “Dredd” writer Alex Garland surprised the world with his directorial debut “Ex-Machina.” While…
Horrifyingly horrid ghost film does disservice to actual house
By Erik Jimenez “Winchester” is bad. But that is to be expected from the Spierig Brothers whose previous film, “Jigsaw” (or Saw 8) was… well…
’Death Cure’ signals death of YA genre on film
By Erik Jimenez The YA (Young Adult) Book Genre is dead on film. The last ‘Hunger Games’ movie was in November of 2015, the planned…
”12 Strong” is a strong war film
By Erik Jimenez In the tradition of recent January war film such as “Lone Survivor,” “American Sniper,” and “13 Hours,” “12 Strong” brings up an amazing…
“The Commuter” Review: pretty average commute for new Liam Neeson film
By Erik Jimenez You know, it’s still shocking that if you told someone 15 years ago that the guy who played Rob Roy would be…
Newest Marvel Studios movie is the funniest yet
By Erik Jimenez Critically and commercially, the previous two Thor solo films, “Thor” and “Thor: The Dark World,” are considered black sheep with neither getting…
New film from ‘American Sniper’ writer feels like Clint Eastwood-less remake
By Erik Jimenez The war film genre has made its existence on putting audiences through the situations that soldiers around the world experience during their…
“The Meyerowitz Stories” is Noah Baumbach’s poignant tale of a dysfunctional family
By Jose Gil In a society where TV shows like “Full House” or “The Brady Bunch” tend to depict families in a happy-go-lucky light, it…