Category: Reviews

By Mark Saldana Rating: 1.5 (Out of 4 Stars) More mediocrity and dullness is what this highly unnecessary sequel has to offer.  Like the first installment, The Nut Job 2 has an excellent voice cast, but does so little with them.  Unfunny attempts at humor and a transparent plot will no doubt bore parents or… Continue reading Review: THE NUT JOB 2: NUTTY BY NATURE

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Dave McCary and Kyle Mooney, two creative minds from TV’s Saturday Night Live, with co-writer Kevin Costello have come up with this heartfelt, endearing and entertaining movie which examines fandom and the creative juices fandom often fuels.  In addition to writing, Mooney also stars as the… Continue reading Review: BRIGSBY BEAR

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) First introduced in James Wan’s The Conjuring and later given its own movie Annabelle, the utterly creepy doll returns in a film which serves as a predecessor to the first Annabelle film and the other Conjuring films.  The first Annabelle movie did have its moments, but… Continue reading Review: ANNABELLE: CREATION

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) As a teen and an adult, I have read several of Stephen King’s stories, but have never read the popular Dark Tower series.  Thirty-six years after the release of the first book, The Gunslinger, a film adaptation, is opening in theaters.  I went into this film… Continue reading Review: THE DARK TOWER

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Writer/director Gillian Robespierre showed tremendous promise with her controversial debut film Obvious Child.  Robespierre has taken her film making talent and writing sensibilities and applied them to her newest project Landline.  With Landline, Robespierre explores dysfunctional relationships of both familial and romantic varieties.  Instead of focusing… Continue reading Review: LANDLINE

By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) In 1939, German citizen Georg Elser planted a bomb in a building where Adolf Hitler was making a speech in an attempt to assassinate him.  The attempt was a failure and eventually led to Elser’s execution.  The story leading up to the assassination attempt and some… Continue reading Review: 13 MINUTES

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) David Leitch, who made his directorial debut with John Wick, has now taken his action sensibilities and brought it to a Cold War, espionage story.  Atomic Blonde not only takes on the 80s spy world, it also tells the story through a badass female protagonist.  The… Continue reading Review: ATOMIC BLONDE

By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) In 2014, the country of Syria underwent a coup and revolution which left the infamous ISIS in charge.  Though ISIS, at first, seemed like they had the nation’s best interest in mind, their extremist ideology proved otherwise.  As a group of citizens began to witness some… Continue reading Review: CITY OF GHOSTS

By Renee’ Collins Rating: 4 (Out of 5 Reels) An undercover MI6 agent, Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron), is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents (IMDB). We need more kick-ass women super spies’ who hold their own in a… Continue reading Review: ATOMIC BLONDE