by Josh Terry | Dec 11, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
“Ella McCay” – 1 1/2 stars out of 4 Walking out of “Ella McCay,” I knew I didn’t like the movie, but it took a while to work out why. Part of the problem is an awkward start that seemed to have the opposite of its desired effect: a...
by Josh Terry | Dec 5, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
“Hamnet” – 3 1/2 stars out of 4 When I type “Hamnet” into my computer, the little red line appears, because it thinks I should be writing “Hamlet” instead. But according to the title card of Chloe Zhao’s...
by Josh Terry | Nov 27, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (3 stars out of 4) Starting with 2019’s “Knives Out,” director Rian Johnson’s series of murder mysteries have taken on a sequence of safe targets. The first movie pointed the finger at the wealthy...
by Josh Terry | Nov 21, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Rental Family (4 stars out of 4) Hikari’s “Rental Family” is the kind of movie that makes me grateful to be a movie critic. “Rental Family” tells the story of a struggling American actor who is forced to reevaluate his life when an...
by Josh Terry | Nov 14, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
The Running Man (2 1/2 stars out of 4) Many if not most audiences will view Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man” in comparison to the 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, even though both films are separate adaptations of a novel by Stephen King. So...
