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By Bob Garver This past weekend featured a weird toss-up between two new releases at the domestic box office. Horror thriller “Knock at...

- Jan 31
Movie Review: “Pathaan”
By Bob Garver Without a lot of new mainstream releases stepping up to the plate this past weekend, there was room for a surprise hit....

- Jan 23
Movie Review: “Missing”
By Bob Garver It never found enough of an audience to warrant a review from me, but I really liked “Searching” back in 2018. I would have...

- Jan 16
Movie Review: “A Man Called Otto”
By Bob Garver “A Man Called Otto” has not been a well-marketed film. The strategy of the film’s advertising seems to be, “You know how...

- Jan 10
Movie Review: “M3GAN”
By Bob Garver 2023 is certainly off to an impressive start, movie-wise. Usually the new year allows holiday releases to continue...

- Dec 26, 2022
Movie Review: “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
By Bob Garver We were first introduced to dashing animated feline Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) in “Shrek 2” all the way back in 2004....

- Dec 19, 2022
Movie Review: “Avatar: The Way of Water”
By Bob Garver Back in 2009, director James Cameron gave the world “Avatar.” The film about a human going undercover as a member of the...

- Dec 12, 2022
Movie Review: "Devotion"
By Bob Garver With “Avatar: The Way of Water” opening next weekend, no new wide release wanted to open this weekend and have only one...

- Dec 5, 2022
Movie Review: “Violent Night”
By Bob Garver “Violent Night” doesn’t have it in itself to be the best naughty Christmas movie ever made, so it tries to compensate by...

- Nov 28, 2022
Thanksgiving Double Helping
By Bob Garver Like the “World” of a certain movie, the holiday weekend at the domestic box office sure was “Strange.” It’s not so strange...

- Nov 21, 2022
Movie Review: “The Menu”
By Bob Garver Like the cozy restaurant setting of “The Menu,” the theater at my screening of the film this past Friday was sparsely...

- Nov 14, 2022
Movie Review: "Black Panther: Wankanda Forever"
By Bob Garver In 2018, “Black Panther” became the biggest hit of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It even made more at the domestic box...

- Nov 7, 2022
Movie Review: “One Piece Film: Red”
By Bob Garver NOTE: This film is available in both “Subbed” (Japanese spoken with English subtitles) and “Dubbed” (English spoken with no...


- Nov 2, 2022
Movie Review: “Ticket to Paradise”
By Bob Garver Good for “Ticket to Paradise,” keeping its #2 spot at the domestic box office over Halloween weekend despite the challenge...

- Oct 24, 2022
Movie Review: "Black Adam"
By Bob Garver It makes perfect sense to cast Dwayne Johnson as a superhero. Actually, it might make too much sense. Like, it’s a little...

- Oct 11, 2022
Movie Review: “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile”
By Bob Garver After several weeks of increasingly ineffective horror movies, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” was a nice change of pace. Actually,...

- Oct 3, 2022
Movie Review: “Smile”
By Bob Garver I’ll start off this review with a compliment: the people tasked with advertising the new horror movie “Smile” did a really...

- Sep 26, 2022
Movie Review: “Don’t Worry Darling”
By Bob Garver “Don’t Worry Darling” is a film whose poor reputation precedes it. It’s going to be remembered not for anything that...

- Sep 19, 2022
Movie Review: “The Woman King”
By Bob Garver Last week I wrote that critics were a little too eager to embrace the random-twist horror movie “Barbarian” because the...


- Sep 15, 2022
Movie Review: "Barbarian"
By Bob Garver With “Barbarian,” writer/director Zach Cregger of “The Whitest Kids U Know” becomes the latest performer primarily known...
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