by Rob Webster | Jun 19, 2019 | ★★☆☆☆☆☆
There’s a movie poster for The Secret Life of Pets 2 (pictured here) that shows the dog Max wearing a cone around his head and a sign around his neck that says, “Don’t laugh.” The sign wasn’t necessary, since the movie did its best to make sure we didn’t, providing...
by Brian Pike | Mar 22, 2018 | ★★☆☆☆☆☆
The main theme from one of my favorite childhood books, Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, can be encapsulated in one line as Meg is struggling against the mindless conformity that is IT: “Like and equal are two entirely different things.” Director Ava DuVernay has...
by Rob Webster | May 17, 2015 | ★★☆☆☆☆☆
Avengers: Age of Ultron is a really stupid movie that opens in the middle of an intense fight/chase sequence that looks a whole lot like a video game, so much so that I thought it was clever how they were going to then pull the camera back and show that the Avengers...
