Mr. Mecham (Robert Redford), a woodcarver, delights local children with stories of a mysterious dragon that lives deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. His daughter Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) believes these are just tall tales, until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley), a 10 year-old orphan who says he lives in the woods with a giant, friendly dragon named Elliot. With help of her daughter Natalie (Oona Laurence), Grace sets out to investigate if...
Life is good for all the food items that occupy the shelves at the local supermarket. Frank (Seth Rogen) the sausage, Brenda (Kristen Wiig) the hot dog bun, Teresa Taco (Salma Hayek) and Sammy Bagel Jr. (Edward Norton) can’t wait to go home with a happy customer. Soon, their world comes crashing down as poor Frank learns the horrifying truth that he will eventually become a meal. After warning his pals about their similar fate,...
If you would like to read my thoughts on the first trailer, click here. Another movie off my list of most anticipated movies of 2016, for obvious reasons. This may not be the next episode but it’s still Star Wars. The fact that it isn’t an episode and has its own story just makes it even more fascinating. Being a Star Wars movie, it still has all the spectacle and all the usual excitement in...
Although I’ve been posting a pair of old reviews every Sunday, I would also like this to eventually be a thing too. Because of the sheer scope of this, I thought it would be unwise to present it on Sunday so I decided to do it here. If you’ve been following my site for a while, you’d know that in anticipation of the release of the 24th movie in the Bond series, Spectre, I reviewed...
In the 1940s, New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) dreams of becoming a great opera singer. Unfortunately, her ambition far exceeds her talent. The voice Florence hears in her head is beautiful, but to everyone else it is quite lousy. Her husband St. Clair (Hugh Grant) goes to extreme lengths to make sure his wife never finds out how awful she truly is. When Florence announces her plans for a concert at Carnegie...
