KFOG REVIEW: “TOMB RAIDER” & “LOVE, SIMON”
This week brings the reboot of the video game adaptation franchise, “Tomb Raider”, and the gay teen romance, “Love, Simon.” It’s tough to imagine anyone but Angelina Jolie playing Lara Croft, but Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander brings her own compact flair to the role. While the film is nothing to write home about, it’s a decent video game to movie adaptation (but that’s a low bar).
Meanwhile “Love, Simon” is a gay teen romance story, that is pretty squeaky clean and safe, thus netting it a wide release by 20th Century Fox.