Movie Review: American Fiction
Through entertainment, American audiences have become accustomed to 3 types of stories about African-Americans: either they’re slaves, Civil rights fighters, or super poor, pregnant, drug …
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Movie Review: Poor Things
Maybe it was Colin Farrell. Yorgos Lanthimos has a certain way with words, which work perfectly if Colin Farrell says them. However, that dialogue inside …
Movie Review: Monster (2023)
In the big US corporate world of moviemaking, stories about complex ordinary people aren’t gonna bring in the big bucks, so they only go for …
Movie Review: May December
Reviewing movies for a while now, I’ve heard a lot of interviews about actors describing their “process.” Generally my eyes start to glaze over as …
Movie Review: Saltburn
And I thought Americans were sexually repressed. Emerald Fennell shows the deep well of buried desire pulsating through the young hot, rich Brits at Saltburn. …
Movie Review: Dream Scenario
So now we have the Nic Cage pattern. Every other year he makes a deranged scenery chewing spectacle. And the following year he takes what …
Movie Review: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
In the cynical studio world of entertainment over art at all times, it’s nice sometimes to see pure unadulterated art. All Dirt Roads Taste of …
Movie Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Let’s start here: of the YA adaptations starting with Twilight The Hunger Games are probably the most interesting ones. For a series aimed at teenagers, …
Movie Review: Radical
Every generation needs one of these. The 1980s didn’t start this movement, but it did master it with classics like Stand & Deliver and Dead …
Movie Review: The Burial
There was a pre MCU time John Grisham ruled the movie world. Grisham’s books were legal dramas, usually adapted into movies built around an incredible …