Category: Movie Review

November 19, 2019

Doctor Sleep: Adequate adaptation raises questions of faith

by Ted Giese In Doctor Sleep, Dan Torrance, a hospice orderly and recovering alcoholic, has a psychic connection with a young teen girl, Abra Stone, that escalates when a nomadic group of gypsy-like psychic vampires called the True Knot led by matriarch Rose the Hat,…

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October 29, 2019

Joker: Dark and Distressing

by Ted Giese It’s the early 1980s. A garbage strike fills the city with ‘super’ rats. A general economic downturn breeds civil unrest. This is where we meet Arthur Fleck. Joker chronicles his personal psychological disintegration as he simultaneously achieves notoriety and infamy from a…

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October 23, 2019

Downton Abbey: Thick with plots but out of character

by Ted Giese A 1927 overnight visit from King George V and his wife Queen Mary of Teck to the household of Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham throws Downton Abbey into turmoil when the downstairs staffs discovers their services aren’t needed. Upstairs, the family has…

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September 26, 2019

Hair-raising horror: It Chapter Two

by Ted Giese It Chapter Two continues the story of 2017’s It, based on the 1986 Stephen King novel. In the sequel, a group of adults—Beverly Marsh, Bill Denbrough, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, Ben Hanscom, Eddie Kaspbrak, Stanley Uris—band together to keep a promise and return to…

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August 9, 2019

Spider-Man Fights a Web of Lies

by Ted Giese Following the events of Avengers Endgame and the death of his mentor Iron Man, Peter Parker (Spider-Man) faces uncertainties and personal doubts. While trying to be a normal teenager focused on his crush, MJ, Parker’s high school science trip to Europe is…

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July 11, 2019

Toy Story 4: Fun, thought-provoking, and eye-popping

by Ted Giese Toy Story 4 continues the story of Woody and his fellow toys who, at the end of Toy Story 3, were given by the college-bound Andy to a shy little girl named Bonnie. Woody struggles to adapt to life with a new…

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