Tag: Movie review

By John MulderigWit, positive messages and lavish production values buoy the movie setting out the origin story Captain Marvel.While some of the mythos in...

By John MulderigIn his 1922 book What I Saw in America, the great Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton reflects on how beautiful New York’s Times...

By John MulderigEverything viewers need to know about the futuristic action adventure Alita: Battle Angel (Fox) is summed up in the line of dialogue...

Funny thing about recent Hollywood comedies, many of them are anything but.Whether marred by a post-Hangover desire to be outrageous or by actions or...

By Joseph McAleerEverything is (still) awesome in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros.), a spirited and amusing sequel to 2014’s The Lego...

By John MulderigIt has taken more than half a century, but at long last Mary Poppins Returns (Disney). The result is a delightful sequel...

By John MulderigIn 2008, Oliver Stone, a director not always associated with calm and impartial reflections on recent history, helmed a biopic of George...

By John MulderigDoes Bumblebee (Paramount) deserve a lot of buzz? While it shares the slightly preposterous premise of all the “Transformers” movies – being concerned,...

By John MulderigTraditionalists be warned: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Columbia) has little to do with your father’s Peter Parker.Instead, this innovative but noisy and frenetic...

By John MulderigFor a film about magic, 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was strangely lacking in enchantment. So it’s welcome news that...