When it comes to Dumbo, are you still all ears?

The premise of a floppy-eared elephant taking to the air has been in the collective consciousness of movie-loving generations since Disney made Dumbo in 1941. Lest you forget, in that one-minute-longer than an hour classic, the baby elephant so cruelly orphaned from its mother does not learn to soar until six minutes from the finish.…

Another version of Spider-Man, oh, boy!

Marvel thinks we all need another Spidey in our universe. And so Spider-Man: Homecomimg came forth from the pens of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. Directed by Jon Watts, the 2-hour, 13-minute reboot of the superhero who pulls on his red costume one arm at a time is decidedly aw-shucks in nature. Tom Holland…

Michael Keaton serves up a two-faced sandwich as Mickey D’s Founder Kroc

I wonder if anybody back in the day had the gumption to hang him with the nickname “What A.” As in, Ray “What A” Kroc. You might have known the very rich guy as the man behind the billions of burgers served up by McDonald’s. But as the movie Founder starring Michael Keaton as Ray…

Spotlight delivers what we needed

Hooray, daily journalism. Boo, Catholic Church. That would be the easy way to review the award-winning Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy from the script he co-wrote with Josh Singer about the true tale of how Boston Globe’s investigative team painfully and pain-stakingly put together the series that once and for all brought the decades of…

Minions makes me chuckle, but the yellow pills can’t get inside my head

The three little yellow dudes have a good sense of humor and all that, but I can’t say I’m in love with their sense of timing. Minions drew a decent crowd for the Saturday matinee in the Regal Cinemas theater in Syracuse’s mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. And the little ones exclaimed…

Keaton’s ‘Birdman’ alights on a lofty perch at Manlius Art Cinema

It felt right to see “Birdman” in an art cinema. The Manlius Art Cinema, to be exact, a tiny movie house about a dozen miles to the southeast of Syracuse, N.Y., where art movies come to run on a screen way smaller than those employed by the big chains nearby and watched by … well,…