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Bob Garver Rrg251Finger Lakes Times |
Like many critics, I despised the 2019 CGI version of “The Lion King.” The new animation was ugly and the rehashing of the story from the 1994...
The “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie franchise has had quite the history. In 2019, jokes about the poorly received first trailer were everywhere in...
“Gladiator II” has some awfully big sandals to fill, both commercially and creatively. Its predecessor, 2000’s “Gladiator,” made $187...
2016’s “Moana” is probably my favorite animated Disney movie of the modern era. I have plenty of nice things to say about “Frozen,”...
It was in the spring of 2004 that I first saw Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth perform the show-stopping “Defying Gravity” from the Broadway...
“Red One” desperately wants to be an “edgy” Christmas movie. Edgy Christmas movies throughout history have included everything from raunchy...
The battle for second place at the domestic box office the weekend before this past one (behind the fourth weekend of “Venom: The Last Dance”)...
Here’s a movie that certainly surpassed expectations. The low-budget “Terrifier” franchise is not usually one that makes big bucks. The first...
Back in 2019, “Joker” managed to make more than $1 billion at the global box office and earn itself 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture...
For better or worse, late September this year is certainly the time for animated robot movies. Fortunately, we got the “worse” out of the way...
I actually had high hopes going into “Transformers One.” Not because I’m a big fan of the toys or really anything about the property, but...
“Speak No Evil” is a remake of a 2022 Danish movie with a famously vile twist. I went into this film expecting it to have the same twist. That’s...
In preparation for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” I watched the original film from 1988. I found that I liked “some” things about it, like the set...