Movie Review: ‘Marry Me’ a Sweet Valentine’s Day Surprise from Wilson and Lopez
By Mark Ziobro | Managing Editor
The biggest surprise about the Jennifer Lopez/Owen Wilson romance “Marry Me” released this past February is that it’s unmistakably sweet. As with most romantic comedies, it has an angle....
Padre Pio Patron Saint of Utica?
By Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
So, 2017 City of Utica records indicates that crime is down substantially in our city. It was reported that there was a double-digit reduction in nearly every crime category when compared to...
At the Movies–“Nacho Libre”
by Mark Ziobro
I was shocked to learn that “Nacho Libre,” the tempered and anticlimactic comedy starring Jack Black was actually loosely based on true events, the tribulations of Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, a Mexican Catholic...
Movie Review – ‘The Nun’
By Matt DeCristo
James Wan’s 2018 horror movie “The Nun” is proof that the further one wanders from the original story (in this case “The Conjuring”) the more diluted the finished product becomes.
“The Nun” is...
Movie Review – Chappaquiddick
By Mark Ziobro
As someone born in 1979 -16 years after the assassination of JFK and 10 years after Ted Kennedy left the scene of an accident in Martha’s Vineyard that resulted in Mary Jo...
Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom
By Mark Ziobro
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” is more connected to its source material and a sense of morals than its predecessor, and that alone may be enough to make up for what is becoming...
Movie Review – Mr. Nobody
Reviews By Mark Ziobro
It often takes directors without anything to prove to make a statement. We’ve seen this with films written and directed by the same person, such as the late Bill Paxton’s excellent...
Movie Review – John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum
By Mark Ziobro
“John Wick: Chapter 3” is violent as hell. Sure, it’s antecedent, para bellum, derived from the Latin for “prepare for war,” should have you believe nothing less. It’s also a cinematographer’s and...
Movie Review: ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’
Mario and Luigi climb down a sewer drain to fix a devastating plumbing disaster in Brooklyn and end up Princess Peach's ‘Mushroom Kingdom’ and Bowser’s ‘Dark Land,' respectfully. I guess that’s a good a...
The Black Panther- A Review
By Mark Ziobro
Just in time to set the stage for the May 2018 release of “Avengers: Infinity War” comes the long-awaited “Black Panther,” Marvel’s comic book adaptation of King T’Chaka/Black Panther, a hidden, technologically...