Category: Movie Reviews

Movie Rewind: THE BABADOOK (2014)

Paul McGuire Grimes

Oct 27, 2015

THE BABADOOK Writer/Director: Jennifer Kent Starring: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, Hayley McElhinney It’s rare these days when you come across an actual scary movie. Many movies are released each year that fit into the “horror genre”, but for every one movie that’s decent, you get about five or six that are…
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Movie Review: GOOSEBUMPS

Paul McGuire Grimes

Oct 25, 2015

GOOSEBUMPS Director: Rob Letterman, Starring: Dylan Minnette, Jack Black, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee, Amy Ryan, Jillian Bell, Ken Marino I remember reading R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps and Fear Street series as a kid. I was also reading Stephen King at the time, so apparently I liked to get scared that far back. The Goosebumps books were…
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Movie Review: BRIDGE OF SPIES

Paul McGuire Grimes

Oct 19, 2015

BRIDGE OF SPIES Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Austin Stowell, Jesse Plemons, Billy Magnussen, Will Rogers Steven Spielberg has tackled many war stories before with Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, and War Horse. His latest film, Bridge of Spies, focuses in on the height of the Cold War in…
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Movie Review: STEVE JOBS

Paul McGuire Grimes

Oct 16, 2015

STEVE JOBS Director: Danny Boyle Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Seth Rogen, Katherine Waterston After the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, I saw hordes of people reading the book “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson as a way to get inside his head and use it for motivation in their business…
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Movie Review: FREEHELD

Paul McGuire Grimes

Oct 11, 2015

FREEHELD Director: Peter Sollett Starring: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell, Josh Charles, Luke Grimes Last year, Julianne Moore won every acting award out there for her beautiful performance in Still Alice as a professor who finds out that she has early on-set Alzheimer’s. She tackles another heavy story with another powerful performance…
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Movie Review: THE MARTIAN

Paul McGuire Grimes

Oct 6, 2015

THE MARTIAN Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastian, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sebastian Stan, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Askel Hennie, Donald Glover, Kristen Wiig Last year, Jessica Chastain and Matt Damon starred in the science fiction epic Interstellar. They didn’t share any scenes together, but now they are back to familiar territory in…
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Movie Review: THE WALK

Paul McGuire Grimes

Oct 1, 2015

THE WALK Director: Robert Zemeckis Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz If you’ve seen the Oscar winning documentary Man on Wire, you may already be familiar with the story of Philippe Petit. If not, you are in for one unbelievable true story. As a young man, Petit (Gordon-Levitt) spent…
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Movie Review: THE INTERN

Paul McGuire Grimes

Sep 25, 2015

THE INTERN Writer/Director: Nancy Meyers Starring: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Andrew Rannells, Rene Russo, Adam DeVine, Jason Orley, Anders Holm, Linda Lavin I was a little surprised to find out that Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro have never starred together in the same movie before. They’ve worked with many of the…
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Movie Review: EVEREST

Paul McGuire Grimes

Sep 20, 2015

EVEREST Director: Baltasar Kormákur Starring: Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Debicki I already knew this, but Everest has now confirmed that I have no desire to go climb Mount Everest or any other summit like that. In 1996 two expeditions attempt…
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Movie Review: BLACK MASS

Paul McGuire Grimes

Sep 17, 2015

BLACK MASS Director: Scott Cooper Starring: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Dakota Johnson, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll Black Mass is the intriguing true story of James “Whitey” Bulger (Depp) who was known as one of the most violent and dangerous gangsters in South Boston. The film…
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