“It’s Not As Bad As You Heard” is the very definition of damning with faint praise, but that phrase accurately describes one of the...

Doctor Strange is my favorite Marvel character. This comes from my college days when one of my roommates had a stack of Dr. Strange...

Alas, the magic is fading in the Wizarding World. The 3rd installment of the Fantastic Beasts saga, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE is...

It is a tricky thing on film, to parody your film image without making it an homage (or a complete trashing) of yourself. And, in THE...

The first recommendation when watching EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is to not try to figure out what is going on in this movie...

It is time, once again, for the BankofMarquis to rank the Oscar nominees in each of the “Major” categories with the #1 ranked nominee in...

Ryan Reynolds is making a nice living, not only is he on the “A” list for such films as DEADPOOL and FREE GUY (a wonderful film that you...

I have stated before that I find that Penelope Cruz is a very good (not great) actress when working in English. But…she has been a...

If I’m being honest, I purposely pushed my Oscar “homework assignment” of viewing DRIVE MY CAR to the end of the list for I saw that it...

The old adage “they don’t make movies like this anymore” is no truer than when one is speaking about large budget, big name cast murder...

The rap on the films of the DCEU - especially the films directed by Zach Snyder - is that they are too dark, dour and a “downer”, with...

The films of Director Paul Thomas Anderson is a bit of an “acquired taste”, moviegoers generally fall into one of 2 camps. (1) those...

One of the biggest disappointments in watching a Motion Picture is when a Film has all of the ingredients to be a GREAT film, but is...

I am a film completionist, meaning I must see a film through to the end no matter what. At times, I take a break and come back to it...

Oscar winning Director Steven Soderbergh (TRAFFIC) could rightfully be called the current “Master of Suspense” as most of his films fall...

The nice thing about being fanatical about catching all of the Oscar Nominated films in the “Major” categories is that it forces me to...

Jessica Chastain is, in my opinion - and with all apologies to Glenn Close - the best actress working today that has yet to win an...

If you ever want to understand the meaning of the term “the sum does not equal the total of the parts”, you need to look no further than...

Pablo Loraine’s SPENCER is not a subtle film, it shows the confinement and suffocation of Lady Diana Spencer under the watchful eye of...

The film that Sidney Poitier won his Best Actor In A Leading Role Oscar for (becoming the first Black Man to do so) is the type of film...