Mark Glass
THE INFILTRATOR film review by Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – The Infiltrator: Compelling production in fact-based drama about 1980s drug wars; another fine showcase role for Bryan Cranston Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars (R) Bryan Cranston stars as an undercover US Customs agent, trying to break up, or at least dent, the rampant drug trade of the…
GHOSTBUSTERS film review by Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – Ghostbusters: Updated remake honors the original, though overall quality more closely resembles the sequel Rating: 2 1/2 out of 5 stars (PG-13) All you sexists posing as purists who railed at the idea of the guys in the first crew being replaced by women were dead wrong. This updated…
WIENER-DOG film review – Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – Don’t be fooled by the title. This is not a feel-good flick for kids or pet-lovers Rating: 2½ out of 5 stars; (R) What’s more important than the Disneyesque title is knowing it comes from writer-director Todd Solondz, whose movies are mainly character-driven dramas with content likely to inversely…
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN film review by Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – Computer effects may be the real star; it’s certainly not the screenplay in this slow saga with several exciting scenes Rating: 2 out of 5 stars (PG-13) Here we go again… This time the oft-depicted English lord raised by apes in the African jungle to become a mythical hero…
ELVIS & NIXON film review – by Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – **** Stars out of 5 (R) If ever there was a film that defined the concept of a “sleeper”, this has to be it. Even for one who staunchly opposed the latter, and was mainly indifferent to the former, this fictionalized account of the unlikely actual meeting between arguably our…
LADY IN THE VAN film review
– By Mark Glass – Fact-based dramedy provides another fine vehicle – literally and figuratively – for Maggie Smith 3 stars out of 5 (PG-13) Last week’s review of 45 Years was largely praise of the performance and career of its star, Charlotte Rampling, who deserves to be listed with the likes of this character…
TRUMBO film review – Mark Glass
TRUMBO film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 4 ½ out of 5 stars Rating: R Dalton Trumbo was one of Hollywood’s leading screenwriters throughout the 1940s. But shortly after WW II, the country morphed into its Cold War mentality, with Communism denounced as the new existential threat before we’d barely…
THE NIGHT BEFORE film review – Mark Glass
THE NIGHT BEFORE film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 3 out of 5 stars Rating: R This will likely be the raunchiest Christmas comedy of the year, but don’t judge it solely on that basis. Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie play old friends who’ve maintained a tradition of Christmas…
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 film review – Mark Glass
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 2 out of 5 stars Rating: PG-13 If you’re obsessed with this fantasy series, you might have enough patience to find this fourth and final installment worthwhile. It does finish the saga with reasonable outcomes, but the path…
BRIDGE OF SPIES
– Film Review by Mark Glass – Spielberg’s fact-based Cold War thriller ‘Bridge of Spies’ exceeds expectations 4 1/2 stars out of 5 Whenever Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaborate, expectations run high in the wake of “Saving Private Ryan,” “Catch Me if You Can” and “The Terminal.” This fact-based Cold War thriller meets or…