Movie review: ‘Despicable Me 4’
Bob Garver
Special to Valley News
For a franchise that has been fairly consistent with its style of PG animated humor, the “Despicable Me” movies are...
Movie review: ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’
Bob Garver
Special to Valley News
“A Quiet Place: Day One” made a grave miscalculation with its advertising. Scenes were filmed with the intention of putting...
Movie review ‘The Bikeriders’
Bob Garver
Special to Valley News
Watching “The Bikeriders,” the word “inauthentic” kept driving through my mind. For example, I wasn’t buying pretty-boy Austin Butler as...
Movie review: ‘Inside Out 2’
Bob GarverSpecial to Valley NewsBack in 2015, Disney and Pixar introduced us to 11-year-old Riley and the squabbling emotions inside her prepubescent head. To...
Movie review: ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’
Bob Garver
Special to Valley News
I’m not going to go into a lot of depth about the story in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” Miami...
Movie review ‘The Garfield Movie’
Bob Garver
Special to Valley News
“Garfield and Friends,” based on comic strips by Jim Davis, was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. With all...
Movie review: ‘IF’
Bob GarverSpecial to Valley NewsMy biggest complaint about writer/director/star John Krasinski’s new movie “IF”… is that it’s a movie. What I mean is that...
Movie review: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’
Bob Garver
Special to Valley News
In this era of constant reboots and re-imaginings and the like, “Planet of the Apes” has had a pretty successful...
Movie review ‘The Fall Guy’
Bob Garver
Special to Valley News
There has been a push in recent years for the Oscars to add an award for stunt work. I’m all...
Reality Rally movie signals the end of an era
For years, people throughout the Temecula Valley have come to know when they see Gillian Larson that it’s time to break out their checkbooks...