by Josh Terry | Jun 6, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
The Phoenician Scheme (2 ½ out of 4 stars) “Help yourself to a hand grenade.” Oddly polite, deadpan lines like these are signature touches of a Wes Anderson movie, along with symmetrical framing, dramatic camera moves and broken protagonists. “The Phoenician Scheme”...
by Josh Terry | May 23, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (3 ½ stars out of 4) There’s an interesting way to note the passage of time between the first “Mission: Impossible” film from 1996 and the eighth and final installment in 2025. At one point in the first film, Tom Cruise’s...
by Josh Terry | May 2, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Thunderbolts* (2 ½ stars out of 4) “Thunderbolts*” is Marvel’s version of “Suicide Squad,” which was DC’s version (versions?) of “The Dirty Dozen.” So if this story about a rag-tag bunch of outlaws banding together against a common foe sounds familiar, now you know...
by Josh Terry | Apr 12, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Warfare (4 stars out of 4) The best movies often feel like experiences, and Alex Garland’s “Warfare” is such a film. The only question is whether you feel you can handle the ordeal. Set in the Battle of Ramadi in 2006 during the Iraq War, “Warfare” was co-written and...
by Josh Terry | Apr 12, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
The Amateur (3 stars out of 4) Directed by James Hawes, “The Amateur” is a solid spy thriller that crosses elements of the “Bourne” franchise with this year’s “Black Bag” and echoes of Liam Neeson’s “Taken” films. The story follows a CIA cryptography analyst named...
