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Jul 5
Movie Review: “A Quiet Place: Day One”
By: Bob Garver “A Quiet Place: Day One” made a grave miscalculation with its advertising. Scenes were filmed with the intention of...
Jun 28
Movie Review: “The Bikeriders”
By: Bob Garver Watching “The Bikeriders,” the word “inauthentic” kept driving through my mind. For example, I wasn’t buying pretty-boy...
Jun 21
Movie Review: “Inside Out 2”
By Bob Garver Back in 2015, Disney and Pixar introduced us to 11-year-old Riley and the squabbling emotions inside her prepubescent head....
Jun 14
Movie Review: “Bad Boys: Ride or Die”
By Bob Garver I’m not going to go into a lot of depth about the story in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” Miami detectives Mike Lowery (Will...
May 31
Movie Review: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
By Bob Garver 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” was one of the most critically-lauded action movies not just of its year, not just of its...
May 24
Movie Review: “IF”
By Bob Garver My biggest complaint about writer/director/star John Krasinski’s new movie “IF”… is that it’s a movie. What I mean is that...
May 17
Movie Review: “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
By Bob Garver In this era of constant reboots and re-imaginings and the like, “Planet of the Apes” has had a pretty successful run....
May 10
Movie Review: “The Fall Guy”
By Bob Garver There has been a push in recent years for the Oscars to add an award for stunt work. I’m all for it, sure, give some...
May 3
Movie Review: “Challengers”
By Bob Garver Since “Challengers” begins practically at the end of its story, I think I’ll begin this review by talking about the movie’s...
Apr 26
Movie Review: “Abigail”
By Bob Garver After last week’s heavy, serious, ultraviolent “Civil War,” I needed a movie like the lighter, sillier, also ultraviolent...
Apr 5
Movie Review: “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”
By Bob Garver “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” is really a tale of two movies. No, not a Godzilla movie and a King Kong movie, rather a...
Mar 29
Movie Review: “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”
By Bob Garver What has happened to the “Ghostbusters” movie franchise? For over a quarter century Hollywood resisted the temptation to...
Mar 15
Movie Review: “Kung Fu Panda 4”
By Bob Garver Since Po (Jack Black), the main character of the “Kung Fu Panda” movies, is known for his corpulent eating habits, it makes...
Mar 8
Movie Review: “Dune: Part Two”
By Bob Garver I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first installment of director Denis Villeneuve’s take on the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic...
Mar 1
Movie Review: “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Hashira Training”
By Bob Garver Prior to “Hashira Training,” my exposure to the “Demon Slayer” anime series was limited to the 2020 film “Mugen Train.”...
Feb 23
Movie Review: “Bob Marley: One Love”
By Bob Garver It was a good idea for “Bob Marley: One Love” to open on Valentine’s Day. Not just because there hadn’t been a decent box...
Feb 16
Movie Review: “Lisa Frankenstein”
By Bob Garver I had high hopes for “Lisa Frankenstein,” whose trailers promised a lead performance from Kathryn Newton (of the gleefully...
Feb 9
Movie Review: “Argylle”
By Bob Garver As much as I enjoyed the fun, exciting trailers for “Argylle” that made excellent use of the film’s eclectic cast, there...
Feb 2
Movie Review: “Anyone but You”
By Bob Garver Not every week brings a shiny new blockbuster for me to review. Sometimes I need to look to the holdovers. Sadly, I’m not...
Jan 26
Movie Review: "The Beekeeper"
By Bob Garver Last week I wrote about “Mean Girls” and the problem of having seen a version of the movie before, which made it too...
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