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‘Bumblebee’ is the ‘Transformers’ film we deserved and have finally received
By MARK VIOLA I’ve said this before, but I wasn’t a huge “Transformers” fan growing up in the 80s when the cartoon was all the rage. That’s not to say…
‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ shows it is hard to be queen in a king’s world
By MARK VIOLA Mary Stuart, born Dec. 8, 1542, became Queen of Scotland at the ripe age of six days old following the death of her father, King James V.…
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ is one of 2018’s most entertaining films
By MARK VIOLA I’ve often lamented over the years the death of traditional, hand-drawn animation in feature films, but one complaint that I haven’t really voiced is the fact that…
‘The Mule’ absolutely delivers
By MARK VIOLA When we think of drug mules, 90-year-old World War II veterans don’t typically come to mind. Which is probably why Leo Sharp became one of the Sinaloa…
Discover a unique world in ‘Mortal Engines’
By MARK VIOLA Let’s face it, film adaptations of teen-targeting novels set in dystopian futures are a dime a dozen these days. Making matters worse, most feature an angsty teen…
‘Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ explores the West in six very different ways
By MARK VIOLA Perhaps the rarest type of film release today is the anthology, a series of shorts connected by either story, theme or genre. In recent years, nearly every…
Deja vu with ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’
By MARK VIOLA Going into “Deadpool 2” this past summer, the biggest question on my mind was whether Ryan Reynolds — who played the “Merc with a Mouth” to perfection…
‘Green Book’ is predictable, but the story still enthralls
By MARK VIOLA Sometimes I think we’ve become too accustomed to twists and surprises in our films. The backlash against M. Night Shyamalan’s patented “twist” endings notwithstanding, people tend to…
‘Mirai’ is a beautifully animated film about love, family and time
By MARK VIOLA I was born the youngest of three children. My parents had me late in life, so by the time I was six or seven, my siblings had…
‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ is full of heart and emotion
By MARK VIOLA I mourned when Disney Animation Studios, which literally invented feature-length animated films, stopped creating traditionally-drawn animation. It was the end of a line that began in 1937…
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