Ocean’s 8
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Ocean’s 8

Due to some poor planning, I ended up watching Ocean’s 8 on the second row of the theater. That’s not the best experience, but it’s a lot better in the days of recliners. Sure, I had to pan my head back and forth, but my neck doesn’t hurt. And you haven’t lived until you’ve seen…

Solo: A Star Wars Story
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Solo: A Star Wars Story

Completely unrelated to this movie, I feel like tagging these films with “A Star Wars Story” is borderline insulting. Do they honestly think the movie-going public won’t know that these are Star Wars movies? I guess Marvel does a similar thing by sticking “Marvel’s” in front of a lot of its movies, but somehow that…

Avengers: Infinity War
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Avengers: Infinity War

This review will not contain any spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War, but you will know more about the movie after reading it, such that you might make general assumptions and/or guesses about what might happen. If you want to stay blissfully unaware of anything at all surrounding the movie, then please watch it before reading…

Ranked: MCU Movies
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Ranked: MCU Movies

Infinity War is nigh, bringing together all the things in a the crazier superhero mashup in the history of cinema. Basically, it is the most exciting day of the year for me in 2018, so let’s get the celebration started early with a ranking of every single movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date….

Rampage
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Rampage

Imagine that you’re hanging out with your 8-year-old son/nephew/brother. He turns to you and says, “Do you want to see my new play I wrote?” He’s adorable, so you go along with it, expecting complete gleeful ignorance of all common sense and logic. He takes the stage (which is really just a pillow in the…

A Quiet Place
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A Quiet Place

There are some movies that the wife refuses to see. She doesn’t like gore or spooky images or movies like this — so intense that you almost curl up into the fetal position, struggling to remember to breathe through most of the movie. Apparently, she says that’s not fun. I don’t understand why not. I…