Historical inaccuracies and gratuitous sex scenes plague the latest "Mary Queen of Scots" motion picture. This was Josie Rourke's first movie direction job, and her inexperience shows. (She was mainly a director in live theater.) The picture is also just plain boring, with a lackluster [..]

"BlacKkKlansman" is director Spike Lee's movie about Colorado Springs Police Department's first African-American detective who launches an effort to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan in the 1970's. Lee keeps the 135 minute picture flowing smoothly, and gets good performances out of John [..]

"In Like Flynn" tells the true story of the early life of legendary Australian actor Errol Flynn before his movie star years. The fast moving film follow's Flynn's adventures in Papua New Guinea and in the outback of Australia. Down Under director Russell Mulcahy ("Highlander" 1986) [..]

Julia Roberts plays a mom whose son returns unexpectedly from a drug rehab on Christmas Eve, promising a 24 hour roller ride as she endeavors to keep him clean. The melodrama plays out smoothly enough thanks to director-writer Peter Hedges ("What's Eating Gilbert Grape" 1993), who got [..]

"The Sisters Brothers" is a quirky western drama from French director Jacques Audiard, his first production in English. The result is an entertaining and watchable motion picture, the story of two cowboy assassin brothers who chase after two other men searching for gold. Audiard also co-wrote [..]

Director Rob Marshall ("Chicago" 2002) and The Walt Disney Company have turned out a high quality and entertaining sequel to the beloved children's classic "Mary Poppins," which premiered in 1964. The storyline of "Mary Poppins Returns" has the popular nanny returning to visit Michael and Jane Banks, [..]

Yet another version of an old Hollywood classic is out with fairly good results. First time director Bradley Cooper put together "A Star Is Born" that has good performances, good music, and a good screenplay (that he co-wrote with Eric Roth and Will Fetters) retelling this familiar [..]

A cynical view of Vice President Dick Cheney is presented to the public in the film "Vice." The story follows Cheney in his quest to become the most powerful Vice President in history, depicting a meeting with then Texas Governor George W. Bush as he (Bush) accepts [..]

"Aquaman" made a big splash at the box office, thanks to superheroic direction by James Wan ("Furious 7" 2015) and good writing by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall. Though the film really did not offer anything new in the way of story, the endless action and [..]

The Best Picture of 2018 is....."Green Book," an engrossing story about an African-American classical pianist on tour with his Italian-American driver through the 1960's Midwest and Deep South, where complications arise. The film has exceptional character development thanks to solid direction by Peter Farrelly ("Dumb and Dumber [..]