by Bradley Smith | Nov 16, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Eight years after witnessing the end of President Coriolanus Snow’s story in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, we now get to see the beginning of his story and his rise to power in the prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The movie is...
by Bradley Smith | Oct 6, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
For a movie billed as an action thriller, Desperation Road contains a pleasantly surprising number of profound moments alongside the action and limited suspense. Admittedly, I have not read the book upon which this film is based, so I suspect I would not have been as...
by Bradley Smith | Jul 6, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Joy Ride is, well, a joy. The movie is hilarious, well-written, moving, and definitely earns its R-rating (within the first few minutes). Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsaio, both of whom have written for Family Guy, and directed by first-time...
by Bradley Smith | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
New characters. New locations. Eye-popping CGI battles and transformations. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a great movie with which to start the Summer. It may not break a lot of new ground in the series/genre in terms of storytelling, but it is entertaining, fun...
by Bradley Smith | Nov 28, 2022 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, Alita: Battle Angel) returns to war, but instead of giant bugs, this time he is patching up wounded soldiers at an understaffed Army hospital during World War 2. Having not really slept for days, things seem bad enough until he is...
