J.K. Simmons
Movie Review: Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
"Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers" is a silly and very subversive romp that delivers big laughs and must have been a nightmare for Disney's team of lawyers.
Movie Review: Being the Ricardos
As a history lesson on the creation of the beloved television show "I Love Lucy," Aaron Sorkin’s "Being the Ricardos" delivers the goods and then some.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS Trailer Debuts
The National Champions trailer has just been released, and you can check it out right here on CinemaNerdz (see above). National Champions stars Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk and Selma), Academy Award winner J. K. Simmons, Alexander Ludwig (Lone Survivor), Lil Rel Howery, Tim Blake Nelson, Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, Timothy Olyphant, and Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba. Three days...[Read More]
Win Passes to An Advance Screening of 21 BRIDGES
Enter here for your chance to win a pair of tickets to an advance screening of the new film 21 BRIDGES on Wednesday, November 20th at 7:00pm at the MJR Grand Digital Cinema Troy in Troy, Michigan. To enter the contest, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page. But hurry because the contest ends soon and there are only a limited number of passes available and ...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Snowman
From Silence of the Lambs (1991), to Zodiac (2007), to Se7en (1995), detective thrillers can prove to be a great escape for the moviegoing audience. It puts us in the shoes of a profession we’ll probably never be in and most of the time it asks us to participate in actively solving the mystery at hand. You usually receive the clues at the same time the characters do and it can be endlessly engagin...[Read More]
Movie Review: Zootopia
Disney appears to be getting more and more comfortable making films more like their Pixar counterparts. Zootopia, their most recent effort, is less Frozen-style musical flair and more Wreck-It Ralph, aimed at delivering humor and character with equal parts cynicism and heart. Does it work? For the most part, yes; visually stunning and funnier than you might think, the film is a joy to sit through ...[Read More]
A Kid Film Critic Reviews Kung Fu Panda 3
Kung Fu Panda 3 was a good movie. This movie is about a panda named Po who was raised by a noodle-making duck. When his long-lost father appears and wants to get to know Po – Po tries to learn more about his panda culture and act more panda-like. When Kai, who is trying to destroy all the Kung Fu masters, arrives Po has to do the impossible to save the world. Will Po be able to defeat the almighty...[Read More]
Movie Review: Terminator Genisys
Full disclosure: I’m a huge Terminator and Arnold Schwarzenegger fan, and since I’m so in love with the franchise and the world that James Cameron created over thirty years ago, I’m very critical of the later movies in the series (Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines [2003] and Terminator Salvation [2009]). In what is essentially a reboot of the Terminator universe, Terminator ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Contraband
You know the storyline all too well. A retired criminal must commit one last big crime before he can get out of the game for good. Countless authors and filmmakers have used this handy plot device, some more effectively than others. The bad news for Contraband, Mark Wahlberg’s latest film, is that writer Aaron Guzikowski and director Baltasar Kormákur have pumped too many tiresome clichés into thi...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Music Never Stopped
It would be difficult to find a movie out there today that is as moving and heartfelt as The Music Never Stopped. The film is an adaptation of The Last Hippie written by Oliver Sacks as a chronicle of a damaged father/son relationship that is repaired when the father bonds with his runaway son through music. Torn apart by the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, father Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) ...[Read More]