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...
by Josh Terry | May 10, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (3 stars out of 4) “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is perfectly good B-list movie filler. It isn’t “turn off your brain” shlock, like a lot of recent franchise offerings, but it isn’t the kind of film that’s going to stick with...
by Josh Terry | May 3, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
The Fall Guy (3 stars out of 4) “The Fall Guy” is the early front-runner for “Most Meta Movie Experience of 2024.” There’ssomething odd about watching a movie about stuntmen, knowing the stunts you are seeing arebeing performed by stuntmen who are protecting actors...
by Josh Terry | Apr 19, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (3 stars out of 4) “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is fun and stylish, but it feels like it should have been more fun and stylish. Based on a 2014 account of declassified British intelligence archives, director Guy...
