Critical Score: 80
Starring: Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise and Tom Cruise
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
This is a typical Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie where the plot is basically impossible to follow. The stunts and special affects are excellent as you might expect and it is action packed from beginning to end. Acting is fantastic and all in all a fun movie going experience.
Critical Score: 75
Starring: Ben Foster, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie
Director: Debra Granik
This movie is highly rated on Metacritic (88), but for me it was a little slow and kind of depressing. It is well acted and definitely reminds me of Debra’s Winter’s Bone with Jennifer Lawrence due to it’s scenes mainly performed outdoors in deep wooded areas. Will and Tom live on state land where they are eventually found out and required to move to a legal arrangement in a small town. Adjusting is hard and they are eventually on the move again due to the psychological needs of Will, however, Tom is losing interest in this constant moving and will have to make a decision for herself if she wants to break free of her fathers suffering – a suffering which she does not endure herself.
Critical Score: 85
Starring: Constance Wu, Henry Golding
Director: John M. Chu
Every character in this movie is Asian and it was produced by a large Hollywood studio (Warner Brothers) which makes it somewhat groundbreaking, although it really shouldn’t. Of course Asians can act direct and create great movies. It’s just that Hollywood is probably a little bit stuck in it’s old ways. All of the acting is great along with the writing and the story line. It’s definitely a little trite and a feel good romantic comedy, but does have it’s own interesting twists and turns. Well worth seeing and one of the better movies of the summer.
Critical Score: 80
Starring: Adam Driver, John David Washington
Director: Spike Lee
Set in the days of the KKK – early 1970’s; tells the story of 2 detectives in Colorado Springs who infiltrate the KKK. Definitely typical of a Spike Lee movie that deals with race, but doesn’t exactly say how to fix it or what to do about it – just exposes it. Well acted throughout the movie and an interesting story with David Duke, played by Topher Grace, expressing his racist views and the rituals of the KKK. Mr. Lee ends the movie with actual footage of the real David Duke and the 2017 scene in Charlottesville, VA; he also reveals Donald Trump justifying the actions and the quality of the protesters on “both sides”.
Critical Score: 88 / 100
Starring: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton
Director: Bo Burnham
A unique movie set in the modern day world of social media, yet displaying the familiar scenes and challenges of going through junior high and high school with peer pressure, braces, crushes, birthday parties, likes, loves, etc., etc… Solidly acted, well written and at times very funny. One of the best movies of the summer.
These two grass roots organizations aim to take out large corporate donors who dictate law and enslave their endorsed candidates. BNC and DC believe and support candidates who accept zero dollars in corporate money. Therefore, they can fight for policies that are best for the largest majority of Americans, not just for those who work at the large corporations.
This is worth a look.
How about nothing. As in zero, zilch. Kim Jong Un got some serious legitimacy by meeting with an American president. A president who lavished him and flattered him as a great man, funny, strong, smart man and great negotiator. All the while North Korea is the greatest violator of human rights this world has ever seen; hundreds of thousands if not millions of people starved in the 1990’s; he holds public executions; he murders people who question or oppose him; thousands of people die or spend years in their gulag; his people have no access to the outside world and are required to listen to his propaganda in their own homes.
Trump declares that North Korea is not longer a nuclear threat although they gave absolutely zero concessions that backs up his claim. North Korea has declared that they will denuclearize for 70 years while they have continued to build their arsenal; nothing has changed. They claim they will denuclearize without any checks or any proof that they will actually do anything different.
Trump has given Kim and North Korea what they have sought for decades with is the cease of joint military exercises of the U.S. and South Korea….. All for nothing in return; zero; zilch. By the way, Russia and China desperately wanted the exercises to end. No surprise Trump once again is happy to oblige Putin. Putin’s coffee boy continues to faithfully serve his master.
Trump, the “great negotiator”, gave away the farm for zero in return. Way to go.