Mike Tyrkus

The timeless story of Peter Pan is reimagined in the wildly inventive and engrossing Wendy from director Benh Zeitlin. But the real treasure of the film is young star Devin France who bedazzles and electrifies the screen as the titular character. Lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, the fabled Wendy must fight to save her brothers, gain her freedom, and retain the jo...[Read More]

Believe it or not, the film I Still Believe from Lionsgate is ostensibly the true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp. But, this allegedly “inspiring” love story from the directors of the similarly-themed I Can Only Imagine (2018) is pretty much a copy of their earlier film and that’s about the loftiest praise you can bestow upon it. Camp is played by J.J. Apa (Archie from television’s ...[Read More]

Stop me if you’ve know this one, twelve strangers wake up in deserted clearing with no idea of how they arrived there and aClear cachere then systematically hunted for sport by more affluent members of society. If you haven’t heard that story, morality play, joke, or whatever you would like to call it, before, that may be because it is none of those things. It is, in fact, the plot of the new horr...[Read More]

The latest comic-book to be adapted as a film, Bloodshot, stars Vin Diesel as a recently murdered soldier named Ray Garrison who is resurrected and bestowed with super strength and healing abilities thanks to nanotechnology coursing through his veins. Now, of course, he’s hell bent on exacting revenge on those that not only caused his early demise, but robbed him of the love of his life. Or is he?...[Read More]

The latest offering from the pairing of Disney/Pixar, Onward, asks audience to imagine a world without wizards or magic. At first, you may think that wouldn’t be so hard to do, but there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye (there always is in cases such as this). Onward ponders this existential question and balances a heartfelt message along with some exquisite lead performances from Chris Pratt...[Read More]

The new film, The Way Back, is and often frustrating, yet occasionally inspiring tale of redemption that meanders its way through a typical, yet clumsily told comeback story. The saving grace of the whole endeavor though is the solid work done by Ben Affleck. His work transcends the film’s shortcomings to give the film a reason to exist. The film tells the story of former high basketball phenom Ja...[Read More]

There’s an underlying message in Michael Winterbottom’s new film Greed that feels like it was tailor-made commentary on the current era in American politics, not directly, but rather the environment that created and actively fosters it right now. But, the outside vantage point afford by this import is not only oddly incomplete, but it is also a tad condescending in its condemnation of the state of...[Read More]

Upon first glance, you may find yourself wondering if another film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma is needed (or wanted for that matter). In fact, one could even argue it would be impossible to improve on Amy Heckerling’s update of the tale in Clueless (1995). Thankfully, you would be considerably wrong as the latest version of the Austen classic, Emma, from director Autumn de Wilde...[Read More]

The latest attempt to bring classic monsters from the Universal canon to bring them into modern cinema, The Invisible Man is an occasionally effective, but nevertheless disappointing return on investment. Despite starting out very strong with a superlative performance from Elisabeth Moss, the film loses its way near the half-way point and becomes a standard cat-and-mouse revenge tale. Cecilia Kass...[Read More]