Category: Reviews by Brian Wallinger
FIRST RUN REVUE: Gray’s ‘Lost City of Z’ is a visual feast for the ages.
First Run Revue is an ongoing series of conversational reviews aimed at generating interactive discussions between The Movie Revue staffers along with the general public. Films discussed will be first-run, theatrical films and we’d love to hear what you have
Quick Review: “The Boss Baby” by Brian Wallinger
Directed by Tom McGrath and featuring the voice talents of Alec Baldwin and Miles Christoper Bakshi, this animated release offers a unique and original take on the question that, inevitably, every six year-old asks, “Where do babies come from?” Baldwin’s
The Girl With All The Gifts Official Review by Brian Wallinger
Offering a unique story with a well-written promise, Colm McCarthy’s The Girl With all The Gifts is a very grounded post-apocalyptic zombie thriller. Following a cataclysmic event where humans are a hoard of infested zombies, a group of uninfected children
LOGAN Official Review by Brian Wallinger
After seventeen years and nine film appearances, the mythology of Logan/Wolverine comes to an emotional and gratifying conclusion. The year is 2029 and all that’s left of the X-Men are Logan (Hugh Jackman), who has distanced himself from the X-Men
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore Official Review
Another Netflix Original, Macon Blair’s “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore” is a wild and fun dark comedy odyssey that transcends the standards of social normalcy. The film begins with a quirky nurse (Melanie Lynskey) as she
A Cure For Wellness Official Review by Brian Wallinger
In Gore Verbinski’s “A Cure For Wellness,” Dane DeHaan plays Lockhart, the representative of a multi-million dollar corporation who is sent to Switzerland to find and retrieve a business shareholder who has been held up in a mysterious, yet sinister
REVIEW: John Wick Chapter 2 by Brian Wallinger
Chock full of action and stunning set pieces, Chad Stahleski’s follow-up to the mega-successful “John Wick” picks up immediately where the original film left off, dog intact. Presumably, he has left his shadowy life as an assassin behind when his
REVIEW – xXx: Return of Xander Cage by Brian Wallinger
January is always a strange month for film. As the major Oscar contenders slowly expand out across the country, fresh off their December debuts big budget fare such as D. J. Caruso’s (“Eagle Eye”, “The Disappointments Room”) “xXx: Return of