Brie Larson turns in an outstanding performance as Marvel Studios' latest superhero "Captain Marvel." This twenty-first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is enormously entertaining, telling the story of how Carol Danvers obtained superhero powers after an accident, becoming Captain Marvel. The [..]

Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures pulled out all the stops in concluding the Avengers movie series which began in 2012, with sequels in 2015 and 2018. Directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo ("You, Me and Dupree" 2006) did their jobs with the precision and grace of [..]

"Aladdin" is on the Disney remake list, now a live action version of the 1992 animated motion picture of the same name. While this Guy Ritchie-directed version is passable, it lacks the luster and the class of the original (remember "Sherlock Holmes" of 2009?). Ritchie also [..]

Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios have hit the jackpot with "Toy Story 4." This fourth computer-animated film in the popular "Toy Story" series (from 1995, 1999, 2010) is funny, warm, and homey family entertainment that has earned over one billion dollars at the global box [..]

As a result of Walt Disney Pictures' goal of producing new versions of its entire film library, they came out with a "photorealistic" computer-animated remake of the traditionally animated "The Lion King" of 1994. This 2019 movie of the same name tells the story of the young [..]

Walt Disney's money making machine continues this year with "Frozen II." This sequel to the 2013 movie "Frozen" has become the sixth film released by Walt Disney Pictures in 2019 to earn over a billion dollars at the box office, joining "Captain Marvel," "Avengers: End Game," "Aladdin," [..]

The long anticipated "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" is out, a satisfying conclusion of nine motion pictures that began with the original "Star Wars" in 1977. Producer-director-screenwriter J. J. Abrams filled the two hour and twenty-two minute picture with continuous action sequences, special effects, unexpected plot [..]

Though Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham are listed at the top of the credits in "Hobbs and Shaw," the real star of the show is the non-stop action-adventure and car chase scenes. We would expect nothing less from director David Leitch, who was also at the helm [..]

Cate Blanchett turns in another sterling performance, this time as an anti-social architect who mysteriously leaves her husband and daughter in Seattle and flees to Antarctica. The director and writer of "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," Richard Linklater ("Bernie" 2011), gave Blanchett the room and the material to [..]

John Travolta has another terrible film out called "The Poison Rose." This crime drama was sloppily directed by George Gallo and Francesco Cinquemani, who also co-wrote the terrible screenplay with Richard Salvatore and Luca Gilberto, adapted from Salvatore's novel of the same name published in 2018. [..]