top of page
This Just In!! Area News
Search
Jan 19
Movie Review: “Mean Girls”
By Bob Garver Of all the pop culture institutions to be cancelled, ended, or otherwise shut down by the pandemic in 2020, the permanent...
Jan 12
Movie Review: “Night Swim”
By Bob Garver For the first time since the pandemic, January means the release of a terrible horror movie in “Night Swim.” Actually, the...
Jan 5
Movie Review: "Migration"
By Bob Garver With the holiday season coming to an end, I can only talk about what “made” a movie like “Migration” a relative hit, as...
Dec 29, 2023
Movie Review: “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”
By Bob Garver 2023 has not been good for the DC Extended Universe. The year will end without “The Flash” as one of the top 20 highest...
Dec 22, 2023
Movie Review: “Wonka”
By Bob Garver A bit of autobiography here at the start: I grew up a stone’s throw from Hershey, Pennsylvania and my current full-time...
Dec 15, 2023
Movie Review: “The Boy and the Heron”
By Bob Garver NOTE: This Japanese film is available in both “Subbed” and “Dubbed” versions. This review will focus on the “Dubbed”...
Dec 8, 2023
Movie Review: “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé”
By Bob Garver When the writers’ and actors’ strikes of 2023 forced several movies off the fall schedule, it was a pair of musicians that...
Dec 1, 2023
Movie Review: “Napoleon”
By Bob Garver Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” did rather well for itself over Thanksgiving weekend, opening in the #2 position at the domestic...
Nov 24, 2023
Movie Review: “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”
By Bob Garver I’ve been referring to this movie as “Hunger Game of Thrones.” It’s a prequel to “The Hunger Games,” but the influence of a...
Nov 17, 2023
Movie Review: “The Marvels”
By Bob Garver The fall from glory of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with “The Marvels.” This is not to say that this movie is...
Nov 10, 2023
Movie Review: “Five Nights at Freddy’s”
By Bob Garver Last month, I wrote about “The Exorcist: Believer” actually working pretty well as a taut kidnapping thriller until the...
Oct 20, 2023
Movie Review: “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour”
By Bob Garver Taylor Swift is the single most powerful force in pop culture at the moment. Every other musical artist is eating her dust...
Oct 13, 2023
Movie Review: “The Exorcist: Believer”
By Bob Garver The creative, commercial, and overall cultural impact of 1973’s “The Exorcist” cannot be overstated. Every Halloween,...
Oct 6, 2023
Movie Review: “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie”
By Bob Garver Standard disclaimer for any and all “PAW Patrol” media: I am not the target audience for “PAW Patrol.” The target audience...
Sep 29, 2023
Movie Review: “Expend4bles”
By Bob Garver Outside of what you see on the posters, the “Expendables” movies have never been particularly ambitious. Sure, it was great...
Sep 15, 2023
Movie Review: "The Nun II"
By Bob Garver “The Nun II” is the ninth film in the “Conjuring Universe,” a franchise tied to the adventures of paranormal investigators...
Sep 8, 2023
Movie Review: “The Equalizer 3”
By Bob Garver It has been five years since we last saw Robert “The Equalizer” McCall, as played by the ever-arresting Denzel Washington....
Aug 31, 2023
Movie Review: “Gran Turismo”
By Bob Garver Like its main character, “Gran Turismo” fights hard to overcome the stigma of its association with a video game. Video game...
Aug 25, 2023
Movie Review: “Blue Beetle”
By Bob Garver Having seen the best (“The Dark Knight,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) and worst (“Morbius,” “Fant4stic”) of what...
Aug 14, 2023
Movie Review: “Meg 2: The Trench”
By Bob Garver It’s around the two-thirds mark in “Meg 2: The Trench” that we learn that some of the film’s minor aquatic monsters (not...
Advertisements
Events
Bolton News
bottom of page