Movie review: “Blue Beetle” gets a ‘B’ but has heart
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsHaving seen the best (“The Dark Knight,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) and worst (“Morbius,” “Fant4stic”) of what the modern...
Movie review: ‘Meg 2: The Trench’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsIt’s around the two-thirds mark in “Meg 2: The Trench” that the audience learned that some of the film’s...
JDS Creative Academy opens fall classes
Chelsey RomanoSpecial to the Valley NewsFall is around the corner, and JDS Creative Academy’s fall classes are now open for registration. From scriptwriting to...
Movie review: ‘Oppenheimer’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsThe other half of this summer’s “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, “Oppenheimer” did so well in its second weekend that I will...
Movie review: ‘Barbie’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley News“Barbie” prides itself on inspiring a full range of feelings – both in its characters and its audience. The...
‘Barbie’ leads box office again with $93m weekend; ‘Oppenheimer’ second
There's no stopping "Barbie" at the box office. Director Greta Gerwig's live-action imagining of the iconic Mattel toy raked in $93 million in its...
Movie review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsLast summer, when “Top Gun: Maverick” was making roughly all the money printed in the United States during that...
Movie reviews: ‘Elemental,’ ‘Insidious: The Red Door,’ ‘Sound of Freedom’
A quick explanation about this week’s movies: with an estimated $40 million at the domestic box office, “Sound of Freedom” had the most money...
Movie review: ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsIt has been 15 years since famed archeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) was onscreen in “Indiana Jones and the...
Movie review: ‘The Flash’
Bob GarverSpecial to Valley NewsIt’s been a whole two weeks since “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” opened, so it’s about time we had another superhero...