Grow Omaha Flicks

★ ★ ★ ½ It’s been nearly 30 years since the movie ‘Twister’ hit the big screen to mixed reviews from both critics and audiences alike. Still, it was a box office success, and the second-highest grossing film of 1996…

★ ★ ★ MaXXXine caps off a horror trilogy by director Ti West that works best if you’ve seen the previous films. The trilogy, known as the ‘X series,’ takes place in three different time periods…

★ ★ ½ I’m going to reserve the right to amend my review of the first installment of Horizon because it’s not supposed to stand on its own. The film is meant to be a sweeping epic…

★ ★ This film is inspired by a book of the same title by Danny Lyon, which is a collection of photographs and transcribed interviews from 1963 to 1967. The movie follows a similar format, a collection…

★ ★ The Exorcism is a film that promises us an interesting take on the stories of paranormal activities that reportedly happened during the production of films like The Omen, The Exorcist and Poltergeist. Horror films grounded…

★ ★ ★ ½ This is a charming film that gives us another allegorical peek inside the mind of a young girl named Riley (Kensington Tallman) as she begins her journey into adolescence. In the previous film…

★ ★ The Watchers manages to take an intriguing concept and make it woefully bland. The performances are wooden, the dialogue is dry and the script relies heavily on characters describing the story in order to carry the plot forward. The film stars Dakota Fanning as Mina…

★ ★ ★ The cop movies in the Bad Boys series are all about action and odd-couple police partners bantering the whole time. In this installment, it generally works well and serves up an entertaining popcorn-muncher…

★ Here’s a film that does astoundingly little to evoke emotions for its characters or produce a plot to drive the story forward. It’s supposed to be a story about two lovers set in a corrupt frontier town in 1860s Nevada. It is a mess of flashbacks, flashforwards and promising…

★ ★ ★ ★ Furiosa is one of those films that movie theatres were made for. The action is fantastic, the pacing is just right, and the characters are played by actors with over-the-top performances. The soundtrack itself is essentially a “character” in the film. It’s thunderous and booming…