Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour 48 minutesDirector: Gavin O’Connor Quick Impressions:I seriously considered watching The Way Back way back in March when it released in theaters. I usually like Ben Affleck’s work. True, I typically prefer him as a director, but he’s also a good actor in the right part. He …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutesDirector: William Eubank Quick Impressions:“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” That’s a paraphrase of some great dialogue from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland used by George Harrison (my friend’s favorite Beatle) in his song “Any Road.” Learning that …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 40 minutesDirector: Chris Sanders Quick Impressions:The trailer for this film managed to wow both my four-year-old and my father, neither of whom is an easy sell when it comes to going to the movie theater. And so we planned to take my son to see The …
Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes Director: Dan Scanlon Quick Impressions: Initially, we planned to take our kids to see Pixar’s latest, Onward, over spring break. Then the coronavirus pandemic made social distancing essential, spring break eternal, and going out impossible. When I wrote my review of The Hunt …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 49 minutesDirector: Craig Zobel Quick Impressions:Apparently this is a horror movie. I know I was absolutely terrified while watching, worried I had killed my parents by risking a trip to the movie theater. So much has changed since earlier in the week when we bought the …
Rating: PG Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes Director: Autumn de Wilde Quick Impressions: I’m fairly confident that nobody has been more excited to see this new version of Emma than my mother. (I mean…Maybe Miranda Hart’s mother…) My mom is a huge fan of Miranda Hart and her eponymous sitcom. …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes Director: Leigh Whannell Quick Impressions: The premise of this re-envisioning of the H.G. Wells classic The Invisible Man is pretty compelling. The film’s trailer caught my interest immediately. If you’ve ever been abused, controlled, or stalked by someone, then you know that said …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 39 minutesDirector: Jeff Fowler Quick Impressions:My four-year-old son isn’t always crazy about sitting through movies, but he loves Sonic the Hedgehog. He considers himself a gamer and dreams of a career as a professional YouTuber. (“I’ve been practicing saying, ‘Comment down below.’”) So even though he’s …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 49 minutesDirector: Cathy Yan Quick Impressions:I was stunned when I found out that a lot of people didn’t like Suicide Squad. Of course, I saw the movie late, at home, because my son was about fourteen months old when it came out, and we didn’t …
Jojo Rabbit Nominated Producers: Carthew Neal and Taika WaititiDirector: Taika WaititiWriter: Taika Waititi Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson, Archie Yates, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant, and others. Plot:Near the end of World War II in Germany, Johannes Betzler, a ten-year-old boy in …
