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Feb 28, 2023
Movie Review: "Cocaine Bear"
By Bob Garver A lot of the reviews I’ve seen for “Cocaine Bear” contain some variation on the line, “This movie delivers exactly what it...
Feb 20, 2023
Movie Review: “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”
By Bob Garver I suppose it’s appropriate that movies starring Ant-Man aka Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) have always been rather “small” in the...
Feb 13, 2023
Movie Review: “Magic Mike’s Last Dance”
By Bob Garver I had never seen a “Magic Mike” movie before “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” The franchise’s first two installments both missed...
Feb 6, 2023
Movie Reviews: "Knock at the Cabin" and "80 for Brady"
By Bob Garver This past weekend featured a weird toss-up between two new releases at the domestic box office. Horror thriller “Knock at...
Jan 31, 2023
Movie Review: “Pathaan”
By Bob Garver Without a lot of new mainstream releases stepping up to the plate this past weekend, there was room for a surprise hit....
Jan 23, 2023
Movie Review: “Missing”
By Bob Garver It never found enough of an audience to warrant a review from me, but I really liked “Searching” back in 2018. I would have...
Jan 16, 2023
Movie Review: “A Man Called Otto”
By Bob Garver “A Man Called Otto” has not been a well-marketed film. The strategy of the film’s advertising seems to be, “You know how...
Jan 10, 2023
Movie Review: “M3GAN”
By Bob Garver 2023 is certainly off to an impressive start, movie-wise. Usually the new year allows holiday releases to continue...
Dec 26, 2022
Movie Review: “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
By Bob Garver We were first introduced to dashing animated feline Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) in “Shrek 2” all the way back in 2004....
Dec 19, 2022
Movie Review: “Avatar: The Way of Water”
By Bob Garver Back in 2009, director James Cameron gave the world “Avatar.” The film about a human going undercover as a member of the...
Dec 12, 2022
Movie Review: "Devotion"
By Bob Garver With “Avatar: The Way of Water” opening next weekend, no new wide release wanted to open this weekend and have only one...
Dec 5, 2022
Movie Review: “Violent Night”
By Bob Garver “Violent Night” doesn’t have it in itself to be the best naughty Christmas movie ever made, so it tries to compensate by...
Nov 28, 2022
Thanksgiving Double Helping
By Bob Garver Like the “World” of a certain movie, the holiday weekend at the domestic box office sure was “Strange.” It’s not so strange...
Nov 21, 2022
Movie Review: “The Menu”
By Bob Garver Like the cozy restaurant setting of “The Menu,” the theater at my screening of the film this past Friday was sparsely...
Nov 14, 2022
Movie Review: "Black Panther: Wankanda Forever"
By Bob Garver In 2018, “Black Panther” became the biggest hit of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It even made more at the domestic box...
Nov 7, 2022
Movie Review: “One Piece Film: Red”
By Bob Garver NOTE: This film is available in both “Subbed” (Japanese spoken with English subtitles) and “Dubbed” (English spoken with no...
Nov 2, 2022
Movie Review: “Ticket to Paradise”
By Bob Garver Good for “Ticket to Paradise,” keeping its #2 spot at the domestic box office over Halloween weekend despite the challenge...
Oct 24, 2022
Movie Review: "Black Adam"
By Bob Garver It makes perfect sense to cast Dwayne Johnson as a superhero. Actually, it might make too much sense. Like, it’s a little...
Oct 11, 2022
Movie Review: “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile”
By Bob Garver After several weeks of increasingly ineffective horror movies, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” was a nice change of pace. Actually,...
Oct 3, 2022
Movie Review: “Smile”
By Bob Garver I’ll start off this review with a compliment: the people tasked with advertising the new horror movie “Smile” did a really...
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