Movie Review: Destroyer
Destroyer is Nicole Kidman’s reward for Aquaman. After slumming it in a crazy CGI spectacle for the vast mainstream audience, Kidman has been awarded with …
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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 …
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: 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: Bird Box
Bird Box feels like Netflix’s response to not producing A Quiet Place. I can see the board meeting now: “Why can’t we make it, like, …
Movie Review: The Favourite
Critics have fallen in love with Yorgos Lanthimos since The Lobster. Personally, I have conflicted feelings about the man. The talent is obviously there, his …
Movie Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
It’s become clearer to me over time that the Coen Brothers clearly love fables. Their stories usually have this larger than life quality to them, …
Movie Review: The Front Runner
1988 was 30.Years.Ago. It’s amazing how the world can change in 30 years. Computers. Cell phones. Reality Television. 24 hour news coverage. Gary Hart, the …
Movie Review: Green Book
The green book was a book written to “help” tourists of African-American persuasion navigate the deep south during the Civil Rights Era, a microcosm of …
Movie Review: A Private War
Anyone who thinks the press are the enemy of the people needs to see A Private War. Marie Colvin, one of the greatest journalists of …