by Josh Terry | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Wolf Man (2 stars out of 4) In January of 2013, once I became a weekly film critic, I started to notice the patterns inherent to my new job. For example, one of the first movies I covered that year was a horror film called, “Mama.” I remember very little about the...
by Josh Terry | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
September 5 (3 1/2 stars out of 4) Earlier this year, “Civil War” used a group of photojournalists to explore a nightmare future where ideological tensions boiled over into organized warfare on a national scale. In “September 5,” director Tim Fehlbaum uses a group of...
by Josh Terry | Dec 13, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
War of the Rohirrim (2 stars out of 4) The best thing about “War of the Rohirrim” is that it will send you out of the theater with Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings” themes echoing in your memory. Specifically, “Rohirrim” uses cues from 2002’s “The Two Towers,”...
by Josh Terry | Dec 13, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
A Complete Unknown (3 ½ stars out of 4) A few years back I used to use Bob Dylan in my composition classes to illustrate the difference between text and context. First I’d play the studio version of, “Like A Rolling Stone,” and have my students analyze the lyrics and...
by Josh Terry | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Catching Up – Late Nov. Transformers One (PG) As of now, we officially have two “good” Transformers movies, and the new one is good enough that you might not mind getting a sequel or two. “Transformers One” is the first fully-animated Transformers movie since “The...
by Josh Terry | Nov 22, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Gladiator II (3 stars out of 4) If you fall asleep about halfway through “Gladiator II,” you wouldn’t be faulted for feeling like you’d just seen a weak rehash of the 2000 original film. Up until that point, Ridley Scott’s sequel pretty much hits all the same notes he...
