by Josh Terry | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Sing Sing (3 ½ stars out of 4) Where most classic prison movies like “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Cool Hand Luke” are focused on a character getting out, “Sing Sing” seems more interested in making the best of things while still behind bars. Inspired by true...
by Josh Terry | Jul 12, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Fly Me to the Moon (3 stars out of 4) The Space Race of the 1960s has delivered some fantastic movies over the years. Based on theexcellent Tom Wolfe novel of the same name, “The Right Stuff” was the first one I remember,tracing the story of the Mercury Astronauts in...
by Josh Terry | Jun 25, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Inside Out 2 (3 ½ stars out of 4) I noticed something while watching “Inside Out 2” that I hadn’t quite picked up on before. We all know Pixar puts out films that are enjoyable for parents as well as their presumed adolescent target audience, and the new sequel to...
by Josh Terry | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
The Bikeriders (3 stars out of 4) 2024 is shaping up to be a good year for movies about photography. “Civil War” already showed us a potential American conflict through the eyes of a photojournalist, and now “The Bikeriders” brings, of all things, a coffee table book...
by Josh Terry | May 24, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Furiosa (3 ½ stars out of 4) As I approached the end of “Furiosa’s” two and a half hour run time, I recalled one of the few complaints about 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” that it was little more than a 120-minute there-and-back road chase. In some ways, George Miller’s...
by Josh Terry | May 17, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
IF (2 ½ stars out of 4) The best family movies usually find a way to appeal to both kids and the adults taking them to the theater. In the case of John Krasinski’s “IF,” you could almost make the argument that in this case, the movie’s primary audience is actually the...
