Hooligan rating: 7/10 The thing about a movie like Patriots Day, which revisits the harrowing events surrounding the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon, it all just feel too familiar to have the proper dramatic impact…or too soon. Bit of both, I guess. Mark Wahlberg stars as Boston cop Tommy Saunders, and is pretty much the […]
Hooligan Rating: 4/10 You know how sometimes you have a thought in your head but when you say it out loud you realize you sound like an idiot? I imagine this how the pitch meeting for Suicide Squad went. “Let’s make a movie about these bad guys who are thrown together to save the world” Yep. […]
Hooligan rating: 6/10 Most animated summer movies don’t offer much of an intellectual challenge to its audience — unless it’s Pixar — but they don’t always hit the mark. So, it’s not to be unexpected that The Secret Life of Pets, which is brought to you by the same studio that forced Minions on us last […]
Fun, but lacks the Spielberg magic we all know and love Release date: July 1, 2016 HOOLIGAN SCORE: 6/10 Steven Spielberg holds a special place in my heart as a lifelong fan of motion pictures. Jaws came out the year I was born. As a child of divorce, I totally identified with Elliot’s isolation in […]
Hooligan rating: 7/10 I have an interesting relationship with Pixar movies as I’m sure most adults my age do, even if they aren’t as honest about it as I am. Some of them tear me apart — ahem, Toy Story 3, Inside Out and the first 15 minutes of Up. Others are just kinda ‘meh’ […]
DC’s first super hero battle crushed by expectations Well, that was disappointing. Yeah. Let’s just get that out of the way right off the bat — no pun intended. Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice is every bit the big, loud, and emotionally empty spectacle we all thought it would be and it’s a real […]