BLADE RUNNER 2049 Review — A Dreamy, Existential Sci-fi Opus
Blade Runner 2049 Review – Something old, something new, something great by Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson In the existential sci-fi opus Blade Runner 2049, Officer K (Ryan Gosling), an LAPD blade runner, is tasked with “retiring” rogue replicants trying to escape the inevitability of their expiration-date. K’s quarry leads him to profound places and quandaries…
MANOLO: THE BOY WHO MADE SHOES FOR LIZARDS Review
MANOLO Blahnik Documentary Review By Staci Layne Wilson There’s just something about a pair of sexy stilettos on woman’s stems. The panache is indefinable, in spite of many psychological and social experiments proving it’s true: high heels are just freaking hot. There are no hotter high heels than a pair of Manolos. Iconic looks, a…
FATE OF THE FURIOUS Review — A Wild Ride Definitely Worth a Spin
FATE OF THE FURIOUS Review by Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson The Fast and the Furious film franchise started way back in the early 2000s, modestly with just a few muscle cars and a handful of up-and-coming actors. Nowadays it’s big box office biz thanks to its stupendous stunts with ever-increasingly exotic vehicles and megawatt action stars…
ALLIED Review — A Sleek, Sexy, Stylish, Soon-to-Be-Classic
ALLIED Review — By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Brad Pitt has a lot of cinematic experience fighting in WW2 — following Inglourious Basterds and Fury, he’s back in uniform for more of the blitzkrieg with Marion Cotillard at his side as the spy who loves him. Pitt plays Max Vatan, a brooding Canadian intelligence officer, and…
DOCTOR STRANGE Review — The Most Marvel-ous of All
DOCTOR STRANGE Review: Worth springing extra for IMAX 3D, but spectacular in any format By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson After super-skilled neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has his precious hands pulverized in an accident, he’s understandably distraught and desperate to find a way to salvage his career. So he hightails it to Kathmandu in…
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Review — A Slow, Disappointing Ride
The Girl on the Train Review – By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson The Girl on the Train is based on a bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins, which is in turn a response to the wildly popular domestic violence murder mystery genre of page-turners. Gone Girl is the queen of them all, but books like You,…
DON’T BREATHE Review — Breathtaking Horror
Staci Layne Wilson’s Don’t Breathe Review will leave you breathless @StaciWilson Don’t breathe… he might hear you. And if he can hear you, he can find you. If he finds you, he will kill you. He is The Blind Man (Stephen Lang), a wounded war vet with scads of cash hidden away in his dilapidated…
THE LITTLE PRINCE Review — Out of This World
The Little Prince Review — Out of This World By Staci Layne Wilson The Little Girl (Mackenzie Foy) is all work and no play – that’s because her micromanaging Mom (Rachel McAdams) has got the whole summer vacation wrapped up in study so she can get into the most prestigious academy of higher learning in all the…
THE SECRET LIFE of PETS Review — Purrfect or a Dog?
Know that this THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS review is written by a true animal movie expert. Staci Layne Wilson (@StaciWilson) is the author of the Animal Movies Guide, available on Amazon. Movies about pets having secret lives is not new – it was done to great effect by Disney in the 1960s with That Darn Cat!…
THE SHALLOWS Review — Suspense Runs Deep
Staci Layne Wilson’s The Shallows review expounds on the beach-based summer thriller starring the lovely Blake Lively as a surfer at odds with a killer great white, armed with nothing but her wits. Generally, I love shark-attack movies – Jaws is of course my favorite, and so when this flick was touted as “Jaws for a new generation” I…
