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...
by Josh Terry | Nov 22, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Nickel Boys (3 stars out of 4) Some movies will be remembered for their concept more than their content. Think, “The Blair Witch Project” or this year’s “Here.” “Nickel Boys” has some striking and memorable content, but the power of that content is filtered through a...
by Josh Terry | Nov 14, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Red One (3 stars out of 4) As fun as it is to dive into the holiday movie season, it’s easy to feel like you’re just watching the same titles over and over again…and not just because you’ve stumbled onto some 24-hour marathon of “It’s A Wonderful Life” or “A Christmas...
