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- 5 days ago
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 25
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 19
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 11
Movie Review: “M3GAN”
2023 is certainly off to an impressive start, movie-wise. Usually the new year allows holiday releases to continue dominating for a week...
- Jan 5
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 21, 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 9, 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
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 11, 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 4, 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 27, 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 20, 2022
Movie Review: Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
After several weeks of increasingly ineffective horror movies, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” was a nice change of pace. Actually, it was nice...
- Oct 4, 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...
- Sep 28, 2022
Movie Review: “Don’t Worry Darling”
By Bob Garver “Don’t Worry Darling” is a film whose poor reputation precedes it. It’s going to be remembered not for anything that...
- Sep 20, 2022
Movie Review: “The Woman King”
By Bob Garver Last week I wrote that critics were a little too eager to embrace the random-twist horror movie “Barbarian” because the...
- Sep 14, 2022
Movie Review: “Barbarian”
By Bob Garver With “Barbarian,” writer/director Zach Cregger of “The Whitest Kids U Know” becomes the latest performer primarily known...
- Sep 7, 2022
Movie Review: “The Invitation”
By Bob Garver Last year, a longstanding tradition was bucked when the MCU’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” opened to an...
- Aug 25, 2022
Movie Review: “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero”
By Bob Garver NOTE: This movie is available in both an English-dubbed version and a Japanese version with English subtitles. This review...
- Aug 5, 2022
Movie Review: “DC League of Super-Pets”
By Bob Garver On more than one level, “DC League of Super-Pets” falls right between “The Secret Life of Pets” and “The Lego Movie.” Like...
- Jul 22, 2022
Movie Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing”
By Bob Garver “Where the Crawdads Sing” is being pushed as one of those literary adaptations that kicks off a whole litany of...
