Steven Schoenberg

This is a pretty well done date night movie all around: accurate casting including a few new faces, well written script, clean acting, believable sets (as in worn, imperfect home interiors) and actor attire. Somewhat predictable but so what? I personally don't mind not having to concentrate occasionally. I look forward to former child actor, now co director, Ms Grace' next film after this one. Good work!

Good movie but ends suddenly and can't tell what happened.

Good racing movie. Hey, I can do pullups too, Brad. And Im hella older. You stole that from Moneyball...enough already with pullups. Kinda fun to watch. There's a similar Grand Prix movie around 1970 that's got much better plot, crashes, blood, parts flying around. Fast forward 55 years and everything's lame. Broomsweep and restart. Hardly. Javier Bardim looks slim, good to see him lead in something besides a no country hit man. Entertaining enough. Solid 3 stars

This is a really good movie. Has some plot elements of 1999 Affliction, deluded ex husband whose child isn't much interested in him, thinking buying family home cures all things. And a whole lot else with the locals gone bad. Recent Cage movies have sucked but this one doesn't. Me like.

I liked this low budget film, I mean with a hot skanky US Marshall in black beating on aging Mark Wahlberg; how can you not? Lots of close range stabbing, gunshots, flare shots, punching in the mouth, death threats, moles, and assassins. Family threats and really annoying, uncomfortable, conversations as well. A bit of comedy with Hassan hitting on the lead over the comm while talking her down from southeastern Alaska? OK. That's realistic, not, but who cares. An enjoyable midweek flick for sure.

OK movie. Kinda slow talking, not much script. Lots gaps in the plot, like scene 1, how did Odysseus even end up on that beach? And later, what did the son do leaving the island? Anyhow, better than cable reruns. Not complicated neither. Only 50X better than the worst movie of all time, Oppenheimer. I sure hope they burn every copy of that and eject the ash into deep space.

Really boring. I was the only one in the theater. The credits were the most interesting part.

This is a really good, original horror sci Fi flick. There's this subscription chemical rejuvenation kit that causes the user to give birth to a younger version of themselves after which they can go for 7 days with a spinal fluid exchange but then switch to the older body with a blood exchange. They alternate. So umm, yah, a lot of uber Alien like transformation, with very accurate blood and guts. Lots of blood oozing out the nose and mouth. Late switching results in aging, such as when the younger over parties. You get deformed fingers, legs, whole bodies, even a fried chicken wing pulled out of one's navel. And this director played by Quaid, named Harvey for obvious reasons, is a riot. Lots of long spooky hallways, red, black, and unfinished. The climax had a two-faced chimera of both selves belching blood all over an audience, then ralphing up a sagging boob. I'm not kidding. And there's more. If you don't like horror flicks or are offended by closeups of fit women exercising, or naked, don't go. No graphic or implied sex, just skin. Very accurate blood color and viscosity, and spatter patterns, by the way. Plenty of other disgusting yellow green fluids and entrails all over tarnation. A must see.

It's an OK+ feel good biopic, which stretches the best of Reagan and ignores the rest. Narrated by Russian spies with campy accents ala Rocky III. Although I would compliment the accuracy of Quaid's accent, I believe it has been A-eyed, not spoken that way. Somewhat tame depiction of horse riding and life long political interest...I believe the former more than the latter. Reagan's legacy which I lived through much of is overwhelmingly B westerns, not politics (no matter what this film suggests), especially his second term which for obvious reasons is glossed over (the truth, last 3 years with severe Alzheimer's, is not warm and fuzzy; no dancing Ron either). The Nancy was portrayed well here. Not sure where the five stars come from...maybe in relation to the otherwise really bad crop of 2024 films it's that good, but over the long term....not so much.

OK, somewhat of a mixed bag here. This allegory on domestic violence is off. At worst, Ryle threw a chair, pushed Lily once, but extremely nice guy all other times does not equate an abuser. And certainly not of the ilk represented by Lily's father, who beat her mother and young Atlas. And how did Lily get into Ryle's building at night to the rooftop (break into my building), at the beginning of the film? Does she have burglar skills? Surgeons on call generally don't party in one-sies either. And they rarely (as in never) have facial hair - Hoover musta rewatched Harrison Ford's equally miscast Fugitive. In fact, every male in this film) save young Atlas had facial hair. Nor are they body builders. Now the flashbacks to young Lily and Atlas were pretty good. So much so I didn't realize Lively didn't play both (fooled by the perfectly matched hair color and facial skin tag). But then, I didn't buy the script part that Atlas went to the abandoned house to kill himself. For days? Don't think so. And why keep a pregnancy with the intent to ask divorce on day of birth? And name baby after soon to be ex's dead brother? I'm not sure what's in the book vs not, but Ryle's character was insufficiently developed. Said to be a womanizer by his sister, there wasn't a moment he looked at anyone else but Lily. The apartment sets were great, immaculately modern, with new appliances, not a smudge anywhere... believable (not!). Taken as a whole, it is watchable if not original compared to the endless parade of predictable sequels that typifies Hollywood. A solid 3 stars, not less, nor more.