Tag: Morgan Freeman

Ben-Hurting Ben-Hur 2016 closes with a pop song, Andra Day’s “The Only Way Out.” Appropriate in a lyrical sense, if indicative of Ben-Hur’s wholly contemporary, too splashy approach. The …

Action Has Fallen With an insipid idea, the Olympus Has Fallen movie-verse continues in this sequel, placing its ludicrous kick-stab-shoot patriotism into London. Gerard Butler wails on terrorists who …

Ted (2) Clubber Lang While lacking the imaginative wit of the first movie, Ted 2 hunkers down into a comedic run without any concern for offense. Seth McFarlane blasts …

A vicious action thriller pitting Olga Kurylenko against James Purefoy Momentum is a female-driven action vehicle meant to start a new franchise. Lead actress Olga Kurylenko battles it out …

Return of the bear Ted 2 is homophobic, transphobic, racephobic, joggerphobic, nerdphobic, sex workerphobic – almost precisely in that order. Seth McFarlane’s work is relentlessly phobic but he has …

I Love Lucy… but she doesn’t love me In-between philosophical ruminations regarding evolution and the potential capacity of the human brain, Lucy kills. She shoots and stabs while seeking …

The movie simply requires a willing suspension of disbelief that makes it a more pedestrian science fiction film than it aspires to be.

Jon Brewer directs this affectionate documentary on the life and career of Blues legend B.B. King, impeccably narrated by Morgan Freeman

Lego Movie is inexplicably genius.

Last Vegas is absorbingly leisurely, a cinematic vacation from super heroes, bloodshed, and true life dramas

Now You See Me charts an unbelievable course of thievery, a heist film determined to run from patterned cliches.

Gratuitous violence may as well contain red, white, and blue stripes with every thrown punch or trails from fired bullets.