 Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Romance, Drama Run Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes, Rated R Starring: Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby, Christine Lahti, Griffin Dunne, Bruce Altman, Alex Manette Written & Directed by Paul Dalio (feature-film debut) Two fine performances from Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby can't quite save Touched With Fire (opening today) from itself.
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 Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Biography, Drama, Sport Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton, Carice van Houten, Jeremy Irons, William Hurt, David Kross, Jonathan Higgins Written by Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse Directed by Stephen Hopkins (Under Suspicion, Lost in Space, Blown Away, Judgement Night, Predator 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child) Race (opening today) is the biopic of legendary Olympian Jesse Owens, and it's one of the most strangely-constructed sports movie you might ever see.  Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Documentary Run Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes, Rated R Directed by Michael Moore (Capitalism: A Love Story, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Roger & Me) Michael Moore may be an acquired taste, but at least you know where he stands at all times. The world's most recognizable documentary film-maker once again builds a strong, well-thought-out argument in Where To Invade Next? (opening today), a film that attempts to answer some of our country's greatest problems. Like all of his films, Moore provides us with a thoroughly engaging, funny piece of "docu-tainment" and urges its viewers to not sit idly by, but to take action to create real change. And like all of his films, it will be adored by the left and mocked by the right...which is unfortunate this time around, because Where To Invade Next? deserves to be seen by anyone claiming to possess common sense, a virtue that Americans on both sides of the political fence purport to be fluent in.  Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, History Run Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes, Rated R Starring: Geza Rohrig Co-Written & Directed by Laszlo Nemes (feauture-film debut) There is definitely no shortage of Holocaust films. Revisiting the most horrific occurrence in human history is definitely understandable and important, forcefully pushing these unthinkable events back into the viewing public's consciousness from time to time. Hungarian writer-director Laszlo Nemes chooses this unsettling topic for his very first film, Son of Saul (opening today), which was just nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. And while it is actually considered the front-runner to win in that category, Son of Saul is one of the least-effective Holocaust movies in quite some time, precisely due to Nemes's gimmicky visual style.  Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama Run Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Scarlett Johansson, George Clooney, Channing Tatum, Josh Brolin, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Jonah Hill Written & Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis, True Grit, A Serious Man, No Country for Old Men, Intolerable Cruelty, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple.) As a movie-lover, it's always great to spend some time in Old Hollywood, and with the Coen Brothers' latest film, Hail, Caesar! (opening today), we get immersed in it. Hail, Caesar! looks, feels and sounds like a Coen Brothers movie, which is very surprising to me because...I actually liked it. A lot.  Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Horror, Romance Run Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Lily James, Lena Headey, Matt Smith, Douglas Booth, Jack Huston, Sam Riley, Aisling Loftus, Emma Greenwell, Bella Heathcote "Based" on the novel by Jane Austen Written & Directed by Burr Steers (Charlie St. Cloud, 17 Again, Igby Goes Down) If you are thinking that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (opening today) sounds more like a Saturday Night Live sketch than a full- length movie, your intuition is serving you correctly. Maybe not since Hot Tub Time Machine has a film's title been so incredibly clear as to what you can expect from it. Yes, this is the unexpected collision of two familiar settings: The esteemed stuffiness of 19th century England, as portrayed in several Jane Austen novels (credited as a "co-author" here) matched with the unkempt, chaos of a zombie apocalypse. It's based on a popular book (no not that one), by Seth Grahame-Smith that parodied Austen's classic work. Sadly - perhaps expectedly - this mash-up turns to mush rather quickly. |
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He also is the featured film critic appearing on WXYZ Channel 7 Action News in Detroit,
and appeared weekly on FOX-2 in Detroit from 2016-2020.
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