Friday Morning Coffee — 7/5/19
Hero or Traitor? Imagine you are 28 years old, hired by the British government to translate mundane Chinese transmissions, and you come across…
Spider-Man: Far From Home — 4.5 Gavels 93% Rotten Tomatoes
Is there such a thing as super-hero fatigue? Probably, but it doesn’t start with Spider-Man: Far from Home, far from it. Part travelogue,…
Pavarotti — 4 Gavels 89% Rotten Tomatoes
Many of you have seen The Million Dollar Quartet, the jam session of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins….
Anna — 3 Gavels 29% Rotten Tomatoes
As in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Luc Besson finds a beautiful model and ogles her with the camera. Making…
Yesterday — 4 Gavels 62% Rotten Tomatoes
Imagine a world where no one knows John Lennon wrote “Imagine.” Then, imagine a world where Ed Sheeran recommends changing “Hey Jude” to…
Thursday Morning Coffee — 6/27/19
Does Brad Pitt look 55 to you? Will we ever see Ad Astra? Set for release in January, then May, and now September…
Doctor Foster — 4 Gavels 85% Rotten Tomatoes
Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias sing to “to all the girls I’ve loved before.” Perhaps not as catchy, here’s “to all the plays…
Toy Story 4 — 4.5 Gavels 97% Rotten Tomatoes
Although Woody and Bo are the stars, a spork will steal your heart. For those who say Toy Story 3 had the perfect…
Friday Morning Coffee — 6/21/19
July brings us Spider-Man and The Lion King. Which others will step up to drag us out of the hot sun into the…
American Woman — 4 Gavels 80% Rotten Tomatoes
American Woman is the real Dark Phoenix. Not in the sense of Marvel Comic character, but as an alcoholic, philandering, deeply-flawed female, who…