‘Flight Risk’ Crashes After Take-Off

The big twist in Flight Risk is that Mark Wahlberg is a balding bad guy pretending to be a regular joe pilot. Mel Gibson’s latest directorial effort since Hacksaw Ridge is smaller on scale. Every now and again, a filmmaker does a movie like this. I’ve always thought big-name directors sometimes work better with smaller-scaleContinue reading “‘Flight Risk’ Crashes After Take-Off”

‘Greedy People’ Suffers From Its Own Abundance Of Arrogance

A movie like Greedy People is a few script revisions away from being a great black comedy thriller. It’s the type of movie Quentin Tarantino or The Coen Brothers would’ve written and then stuck in a drawer because they couldn’t give it the panache to make at least a few characters likeable. I’m reminded ofContinue reading “‘Greedy People’ Suffers From Its Own Abundance Of Arrogance”

‘Capricorn One’ A Thrill Ride For Conspiracy Theorists

Did we really go to the Moon? That has been the question since 1969 as skeptics believe that NASA used the same set that Stanley Kubrick used for 2001: A Space Odyssey. This was also enhanced by skeptics believing the Apollo 13 mission disaster was faked to keep public interest in the space program. AndContinue reading “‘Capricorn One’ A Thrill Ride For Conspiracy Theorists”

Annual Red Fern Festival This Weekend

Hopefully, the weather doesn’t postpone or cancel it. But if you’re going to be in the northeastern part of Oklahoma this weekend, you might want to head to Tahlequah for the annual Red Fern Festival. The 17th annual festival is a celebration of “Where the Red Fern Grows” and the life of its author WilsonContinue reading “Annual Red Fern Festival This Weekend”

‘Wolf Man’ Lacks Much Bite

It’s been over 20 years since a filmmaker did anything remotely original with the whole werewolf genre with Dog Soldiers. Since then, we’ve been subjected to the Twilight series and whatever the hell The Wolf of Snow Hollow was supposed to be. Don’t be fooled by the reviews on that latter one, you’ll be rootingContinue reading “‘Wolf Man’ Lacks Much Bite”

Rest In Power, Pope Francis

Pope Francis was probably the first pontiff in a long time that seemed to exhibit the true teachings of Jesus Christs. Let’s face it, the one he replaced, Pope Benedict XVI, was all about the flair and the pizazz of being the head of the Catholic Church. I don’t doubt there was some truth toContinue reading “Rest In Power, Pope Francis”

‘A Real Pain’ Is Kind Of A Bore And Painful To Watch

There are some actors who seem to constantly play the same type of character over and over mainly because it’s a reflection of how they are in real life. Jesse Eisenberg is one of those actors. While the geeky, nerdy ramblings that he used to do worked perfectly when he was younger, now it justContinue reading “‘A Real Pain’ Is Kind Of A Bore And Painful To Watch”