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‘The Predator’ is a film of its time and isn’t perfect, but delivers fun
By MARK VIOLA As much as I like to watch movies, and spend much of my time writing about them, I haven’t seen everything out there, and there are films…
‘White Boy Rick’ tells an interesting story, but does so very, very slowly
By MARK VIOLA Back in the mid-1980s, Richard Wershe Jr. was living in Detroit, Mich., with his father, Richard Wershe Sr., and his sister Dawn. Instead of going to school,…
‘A Simple Favor’ trips right at the end
By MARK VIOLA Director Paul Feig is known for comedies, including “Bridesmaids,” “Ghostbusters” and “The Heat.” For his latest film, however, he decided to jump into the mystery thriller genre…
Garner is out for bloody vengeance in the action-packed ‘Peppermint’
By MARK VIOLA Back in 2008, director Pierre Morel gave us “Taken,” a film that turned Liam Neeson into an action star and made parents around the world afraid to…
Mystery, dinner and ‘40s radio meet in ‘The Sound of Murder’
The Monticello Opera House has opened its 2018-19 season with “The Sound of Murder,” a murder mystery set in a 1940s radio studio. The owner of the station is desperately…
‘Searching’ uses a new technique to deliver an enthralling mystery
By MARK VIOLA Although “The Blair Witch Project” was not the first to use the “found footage” technique, it definitely popularized it, and that film’s success led to countless other…
‘Operation Finale’ is mostly a success
By MARK VIOLA At the end of World War II, one of the most infamous Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, escaped justice and went into hiding. Credited as the mastermind behind the…
‘A-X-L’ is not anything truly special, but it does get us to care in the end
By MARK VIOLA Just about every story I can think of that involves artificial intelligence deals with the idea of human-level intelligence. The reasons are pretty simple. Not only does…
‘The Happytime Murders’ is really shocking, but it’s also quite funny
By MARK VIOLA As a kid, I was much more inclined to watch the “Muppet Babies” cartoon than I was the actual “Muppets” films or re-runs of the television show.…
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ puts a fun new spin on a story we’ve seen before
By MARK VIOLA Among all of the film genres out there, the two I probably see the least of are horror flicks and romantic comedies. While they’ll never be my…
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