Jun 16 Love0 Jurassic World’s Screenplay is All About the Creatures, Not Humans and Story By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews “An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making” – that’s a hook. Two installments, or 22 years later, “The Park…Read More
Jun 05 Love0 Watch Out Bond and Bourne, ‘Spy’ is a Justified Parody Win for McCarthy and Feig By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews First “Eggsy” and now Susan Cooper, the latest Feig-McCarthy collaboration makes another dive into espionage silliness before Ethan Hunt and…Read More
May 13 Love0 How an Iconic Action Hero Transcended ‘Maggie’ to Zombie Level Seven By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews Here’s something to let Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody quit ringing in your head: Arnold Schwarzenegger in a drama zombie film. By…Read More
Apr 08 Love0 Freetown: Grounded, Honest and Endearing By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews Director Garrett Batty’s latest outing marks a revisit to fact-based and faith-centric storytelling. Mormon missionaries are at risk again, but…Read More
Mar 18 Love0 Think of Run All Night as an Average Prime-time Boxing Match By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews Liam Neeson is out punching, shooting and making threats again in the actor’s latest collaboration with Jaume Collet-Serra after Unknown…Read More
Feb 22 Love1 The Tale of Princess Kaguya: Studio Ghibli’s Brightest Film By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews The Cat Returns, Howl’s Moving Castle, Earthsea, Ponyo, Arrietty, Poppy Hill and The Wind Rises – every post-Spirited Away film…Read More
Feb 08 Love0 Jupiter Ascending: A Mesmerizing Crash Landing By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews A 7-month delay and a deflated premiere? Oh, boy. Even so, I still stand by the Wachowskis’ latest, convincing myself…Read More
Jan 27 Love0 A Most Violent Year: Portrayed with Meaning and Impact By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews And on this day, a month later than its “This Christmas” release date, J.C. Chandor’s third outing is in Houston…Read More
Jan 19 Love0 Predestination: Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook Reshape the Time Travel Genre By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews Future past, present then, paradoxes, etc. – films about time find joy in giving you a headache and the search…Read More
Jan 05 Love0 Big Eyes: Simplistic and Shallow Screenwriting By Nguyen Le Movie Reviews And the explorer of the outlandish takes a break. After two “in familiar territory” yet middling films Alice and Dark…Read More