From the start, I wanted to really like “The Age of Adaline.” A woman who won’t age because of a lightning strike following a car accident … well, I won’t go all spoiler on you, but you...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/04/27/the-age-of-adaline-adds-up-too-easily/
Fill in the blank in the headline above, please and thank you. Oh, Kevin James. Why in the world would you do this to yourself? My Long Island guy, fellow Mets fan, dude who grew up down the same...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/04/20/when-favorite-actors-turn-in-stinkers-i-___/
Sometimes our great actors can seem to be merely playing themselves. My, that can become tiring. Jack Nicholson as Jack Nicholson, anyone? Arch that eyebrow. Unleash that expression of disgust. S...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/04/13/pacino-packs-a-subtle-punch-in-danny-collins/
The car chases for this gang are done. “Furious 7” put the gang through its paces in very fine style. You can read my review of this quite interesting and emotionally loaded final chapter of ...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/04/06/furious-7-says-goodbye-in-a-big-way/
There are things happening up on the screen in “Get Hard” that, taken at face value, are offensive. Yet I wasn’t ruffled nearly enough to stand up, do an about face and march out of there a...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/03/30/offensive-can-have-other-messages/
There are many ways, I suppose, for a bunch of college-aged men to spend a few hours in a strange city before a very important evening. Add in the fact that they’re joined by the collective pur...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/03/27/how-do-you-prep-for-a-sweet-sixteen/
To me, “A Star is Born” means a drunked-up rocker played by Kris Kristofferson doing the right/wrong/right/wrong dance with a wild-eyed optimist of a young singer played by Barbra Streisand. ...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/03/26/is-any-movie-worth-a-fourth-swing-at-it/
Sometimes the movie schedule isn’t the best fit for my life. Saturday, there was someplace my dear wife Karen had to be at 3 p.m., no ifs, ands or buts about it. (Hello, tax preparer.) We wante...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/03/23/3ds-a-non-starter-for-me-but-insurgent-would-have-been-the-one/
This emotional feeling about “Fast and Furious 7” is moving into overdrive. The movie made after the tragic death of star Paul Walker opens on April 3. For more than a year now, his co-stars ...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/03/19/vin-diesel-feels-family-love-as-fast-opening-approaches/
In “Run All Night,” I found myself rooting for the guy played by Liam Neeson. When, in the back story set in front of us, his character was every bit a bad a guy as the man played by co-lead ...
https://markbialczak.com/2015/03/16/when-bad-people-do-good-in-the-movies/