The Last Jedi is a Messy Masterpiece
When watching The Last Jedi, one gets the impression that they are watching something that genuinely wasn’t a given. That might be an odd sentiment in this day and age; [...]
All about IT
It is a cinematic rarity: a remake that actually makes sense. The original It is specifically the sort of movie that deserves a second go, insofar as it made a genuine, [...]
You Can All Rest Easy: Wonder Woman is Good
To say the Wonder Woman movie comes with a fair amount of baggage may be the biggest understatement in superhero film history. She’s easily among the top five most [...]
Rogue One is a thrilling and intense, if occasionally tedious, Star Wars spinoff
(Disney/Lucasfilm) Disney officially and emphatically places yet another property into the burgeoning “cinematic universe” market with Rogue One, a spinoff [...]
The Blair Witch is more visceral and exhilarating than it’s predecessor, even if it’s much less interesting.
The Blair Witch, directed by Adam Wingard, is a belated follow-up to the 1999 horror classic, The Blair Witch Project, a movie that arguably did more to [...]
Suicide Squad
It’s the second week in August, which means the most lackluster summer movie season in recent memory has finally come to a close, and with it comes the arrival of one of [...]
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War is a battle between people who, with a few notable exceptions, don’t want to hurt each other all that much, which is arguably the biggest [...]
Serenity thrives in Old Town Murrieta
Thirteen years ago Anthony’s Lounge and Ristorante was a large Italian hideaway in Temecula, yet it found its intimate happy home in Old Town Murrieta. The restaurant [...]
Joan Rivers dies at 81
Controversial and gravelly-voice comedienne Joan Rivers has died at age 81, her daughter Melissa Rivers says. Rivers was admitted to New York’s Mt. Sinai hospital after she [...]
Sweeney: My genes are Latina but my jeans say ‘white’
I have found that there are few things that I can say that shock people more than these two words: I’m Latina. I am the product of a Salvadoran mother and a half-Castilian [...]
