What better time than Day of the Dead to remember C O C O . (Original Review from it's premiere in 2017). A visual masterpiece with a huge heart, Disney/Pixar's latest, COCO is a funny, moving adventure into the land of the living & the dead. Set in Mexico, with colorful visuals from its opening frames that immerse you in Mexican culture and traditions, COCO is transporting. Young Miguel (newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) has a passion for music, but since his great grandfather

Some very odd choices by its creators sink what could have been a fascinating documentary about the only one-time OO7, BECOMING BOND. At...

Historical dramas can be ponderous, slow and humorless affairs, or they can be VICTORIA & ABDUL. Smart, funny and engaging, it’s a...

Finally....finally they've made a FUN DC movie. After sitting through the boring, dark and stupid Batman V Superman last year, WONDER...

Taylor Sheridan has become a filmmaker to watch with his terrific screenplays for "Sicario" and "Hell or High Water" Now in addition to...

A powerful wrap up to Matt Reeves retelling of the Planet of the Apes legacy, WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES is a simian-filled mash up...

Luc Besson has always been an incredibly visual filmmaker, with classics like 'Leon: The Professional", "The Fifth Element" and "Le...

What I loved most about Martin McDonagh's dark, brilliant film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI was that he lets you think you...

Masquerading as a Marvel Superhero movie, THOR RAGNAROK is the most expensive buddy comedy in movie history, coming in at a $180...

I had the chance to see a pre-release sneak of the new UK thriller STRATTON this week. Cliched but action packed, it's like a big screen...

Long but epic, fresh but filled with tributes to the past, STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI's last 45 minutes are about as good as it gets for...

After the debacle of "The Happening" which without hesitation I dub the worst movie I've ever seen, I swore I would never see another...

WOW. Are you ready for the best Spiderman movie yet, even better than one of my fave superhero movies of all time, "Spiderman 2"? Grab...

The only thing more icy than the title character of THE SNOWMAN is the reception this poorly constructed thriller got at the box office...

Poor Goldie Hawn. It's been 25 years since she's made a good film (1992's "Death Becomes Her") and 15 years since she's made a film at...

The definition of any great filmmaker is their ability to defy your expectations when you sit down in a movie theater. My assumptions...

If you are a film buff or a Hitchcock enthusiast, you are going to like the new documentary 78/52. If you are both like I am, you’re...

I've always loved film music. One of the first albums I ever bought was when I was 7 years old, the soundtrack to "Butch Cassidy and...

Writer/Director Dan Gilroy is one of my favorite emerging filmmakers. His "Nightcrawler" with Jake Gyllenhall is a must see and his...

One of my favorite Steven Spielberg films is his powerful recreation of history in "Munich". A globe trotting depiction of the Olympic...

I gave up on the "Pirates" movies several editions ago, scorning them with the same detest that I greet each new loud, boring and...

More than a decade ago, in 2007, Daniel Day-Lewis and Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson teamed up for one of my favorite films of...

Set in the early 1960's, a pivotal time of reform in the Catholic church, NOVITIATE is a fascinating story of one young girls...

Equal elegant portions murder mystery, period drama, romance and tragedy, 2017's MY COUSIN RACHEL pulls you in immediately. We meet...