Dave Wyman

Plenty of introspection, action, MacGyvering, international locations, and suspense for me. The introduction involves a fair amount self-awareness on the part of the killer. It does foreshadow most of what’s to come. It’s not a dark comedy, there’s no super hero, it’s not a romcom. For those who can’t focus on something for more than a few seconds, this movie isn’t for you and you have my sympathy.

Sweet and bitfersweet, it’s another winner from John Carney, where people learn to see themselves as they are and connecting them through music. Although the setting is Dublin, there are major references to my city, Los Angeles. It’s also about your city and everyone else’s city, and about the lives we all lead, or we we did or could still lead.

You’re either fated to enjoy this movie or not. That’s not as simple as it seems, as fate, like Bullet Train, sometimes takes is to unexpected destinations.

A quiet movie with powerful voices, in song. A movie of friendship and love and longing. A subtle set of lyrics that are woven into this offbeat live story.

Worth watching for those that like war movies and/or who love Tom Hanks. I’ve seen complaints the movie’s special effects aren’t so special. I think the CGI is more than realistic enough and far superior to almost any other movie depicting what happened on the high seas during the Second World War.

Way ahead of its time. McGoohan was an imperfect but charismatic hero.

Spoiler alerts! This is an illogical, over-acted, mostly predictive movie. It cheated me out of some time I could have spent doing something else. The movie was a cheat right from the beginning, when a view that was supposedly of the local geography 100 miles north of San Francisco was clearly of the Boulder, Colorado area, with its famed Flatiron formation visible in the distance. Some of the silliness: The bad guy kills the heroine's parents, whose decomposing bodies are found some days later. Meanwhile, the days's-long dead body of her murdered husband appears perfectly preserved in the trunk of a car. The detective who finds the bodies of the parents and suspects the heroine is a kidnap victim - or worse - drives alone to the estate where he thinks the heroine might be found. Does he call for backup? No. Once at the estate, he’s attacked by the kidnapper/murderer. And so on.