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1 day ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts |Gabriel Byrne
With another post-Memorial Day weekend, yet another franchise arrives with a new entry at the multiplex. It feels like a week ago (and it was) that I wrote about the return of THE KARATE KID, which was a sequel/reboot that dealt with the loss of a major supporting character, Mr. Miyagi. This new film takes on the challenge of continuing a series when the major “title” character met his end (yeah, probably…) in the last installment.
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1 day ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
It’s always great as a reviewer when you can alert folks to a film that’s truly worth their time, a real engaging story full of twists, turns, and often very pleasant surprises. An even greater “stunner” is the fact that it’s the sixth (though some may argue it’s the eighth) installment of a nearly forty-year-old film franchise. Normally, I’d suggest that you would be wise to order tickets early to see it at your favorite multiplex, but I can’t really do that.
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1 week ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
And with the first official post-holiday “Summer cinema” weekend at the multiplex, here comes the return of another beloved movie franchise. Though it doesn’t boast the longest wait between installments, its storied history is one that the IMF might have a tough time sorting through. It’s hard to believe that the initial was over forty years ago. That flick and its two sequels became cable TV staples in the 1980s.
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1 week ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
Just because the Summer movie season is officially in full swing (Memorial Day was last Monday, already), it doesn’t mean that there isn’t room at the multiplex for a daring original (and often brutal) horror flick amongst the family-friendly fantasies and the action “tentpoles”.
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2 weeks ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
This week’s new indie comedy (a “micro-budgeted” flick squeezed in between two holiday-weekend studio “tentpoles”) explores the difficulty for adults to make new, meaningful connections in the hectic modern world. Now it’s not really a “rom-com” (though some may interpret it as such) about the meet-cute and “wooing” of two “camera-ready” twenty-somethings. This focuses on a duo in their early 40’s, though one of them was a recent People Magazine “Sexiest Man Alive”.
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2 weeks ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
And we’re finally back to the blockbusters, to be precise, the big Summer box office blockbusters, that will dominate the multiplex for this weekend (of many to arrive). Of the titanic duo for the three-day holiday, this one’s a remake, though it actually may be considered a “franchise” or even a “tent pole”. In the wake of the huge success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, several other studios have wanted their own “unified, united film series”.
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4 weeks ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
Last week, the big Summer cinema season kicked off with another trip to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with another Impossible Mission and a Disney remake debuting in just a few weeks. So, does that mean that horror fanatics (AKA “gore-hounds”) will have to wait for the cooler temps for their “fright fix”? Well, ROSARIO gave up some scares last week, and that late April “sleeper smash” SINNERS is still dishing up some plasma with its blues soundtrack.
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4 weeks ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
While the halls of the multiplex are filled with the sounds of battling superheroes and video game icons and even some 1930s bloodsuckers, here comes a film that “identifies” as a thriller, though it’s really an insightful character study set during a family crisis. Plus, it’s a compelling showcase for one of our most gifted actors, who often brings “more to the plate’ in many recent action flicks. Oh, and he’s paired with an actress who’s best known for her work in a long-running TV sitcom.
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1 month ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
May has finally arrived which means it’s time for those flowers to start popping up, after those torrential April showers. Well, that’s what most folks think of this month, but for movie fans, it heralds the start of the Summer cinema season. And as with most Mays since 2008, the first big flick out at the multiplex is from Marvel Studios. Now they did have a film open just about three months ago, but it was really an appetizer for a big sprawling “multi-hero” epic.
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1 month ago | 
wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts
This week’s big streaming feature film release could be compared to the return of an unexpected Fall romance from several years ago, seven to be precise. This movie captured my heart, along with my critical sensibilities. when it seemed to appear seemingly out of nowhere, with little fanfare or hype.
