Movie Review #600: Der Samurai
For movie review #600 I thought I’d pick something designed to appeal to everyone. The only logical choice, obviously, was a movie about a German …
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Movie Review: Holmes and Watson
Holmes and Watson is yet another signifier that I am no longer a young person. There was a time where whenever Will Ferrell showed up, …
Movie Review: Welcome to Marwen
Have to say, I saw the craziness of Welcome to Marwen coming. We’re long past the days where Robert Zemeckis is directing like he’s one …
Movie Review: On the Basis of Sex
Trailers before a movie are usually meant to appeal to the audience that is seeing that particular movie. Which is why it’s amusing that the …
Movie Review: Shoplifters
It doesn’t mean it’s the greatest movie of all time, but Palme D’Or winners of the Cannes Film Festival usually do mean that that film …
Movie Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Sometimes directors adapting specific writers make so much sense you wish they’d team up more. Michael Lewis’s The Big Short could only have been properly …
Movie Review: Vice
About a decade ago, nothing excited me more than the latest Will Ferrell movie directed by Adam McKay. When you release movies like Anchorman, Talladega …
Movie Review: Ben Is Back
It feels like Ben Is Back was afraid of losing viewers after the first hour of the movie. After opening as a film about how …
Movie Review: Bumblebee
A prequel about the robot from Transformers that doesn’t talk? Yikes, sounds super awful. And then, strange, good things start happening. Travis Knight, not Michael …
Movie Review: Second Act
Second Act is one of those movies you too easily roll your eyes at and ignore. Jennifer Lopez in a wacky workplace comedy where she’s …