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Disclosure Day : Movie Review

June 11, 2026

All I can say is… prepare to be dazzled.

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny : Movie Review

June 29, 2023

This review is for Rey, Tessie, Cristina, and Mireya Pasa – my parents and sisters – who had to put up with me whipping a jump rope like a bullwhip around our house and into the tree in our front yard. I love you so much. What an honor it is of my life to […]

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Ready Player One

March 28, 2018

Here’s the key to enjoying Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One: Realize the film’s $175 million budget covered the filmmaking and what rights to various properties they could afford. Were they to include every little detail of the book, the film’s budget would have been at least triple that. So right […]

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The BFG

June 30, 2016

Watching Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of The BFG, you can’t help but wonder if this is what a Harry Potter movie would have looked like had he taken the reins on one of the films from that series. There’s a great deal of wild whimsy from Roald Dahl’s original novel which Spielberg so capably brings to […]

Real Steel

October 7, 2011

(This review was originally published on October 7, 2011 at The Rogers Revue) Director Shawn Levy inaugurates the fall movie season with “Real Steel”, a frustrating effort that proves the rope-a-dope can be just as effective on a human audience as it is against a 2,000 lb. robot with nitrous-fueled jabs. Set in the year […]

Cowboys & Aliens

July 29, 2011

(This review was originally published on July 29, 2011 at The Rogers Revue) A movie with a premise like “Cowboys & Aliens” might draw plenty of unwarranted criticism from biased moviegoers, but its content isn’t as black-and-white as its title might suggest. Jon Favreau’s $180 Million blockbuster-to-be is unquestionably an epic, but it unwittingly parlays its winning […]