Movie Review: Deathgasm
Apparently Sam Raimi’s horror movies made it down to New Zealand. Jason Lei Howden takes a page out of the low budget horror master’s playbook …
2015
The Should Be Oscar Nominations of 2015 – Final Ballot
WINNERS ARE IN BOLD: Best Picture The Big Short The Martian Inside Out Straight Outta Compton Predestination Chi-Raq The Hateful Eight Mad Max: Fury Road …
Movie Review: The Revenant
Congratulations, Academy. Is this what you wanted? All Leo DiCaprio wants is one Oscar, and as one of the best actors of his generation, he …
Movie Review: Brooklyn
My mom’s side of the family is Irish. Brooklyn’s story is as much about them as it is most American families. Anchored by Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn …
Movie Review: Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman is responsible for more thought provoking original filmmaking than most other moviemakers dream of. No wonder his movies come out so sporadically; it …
Top 10 Movies for 2015 – 5 Year Revision
Life got in the way of the movies of 2015 for me. I was on a work assignment that kept me from reviewing movies on …
Movie Review: The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino will go down as an all time great filmmaker. His style has ushered in a modern brand of movie making and created endless …
Movie Review: Spotlight
All The President’s Men set the movie standard for investigative journalism. Since that feature, there have been several decades of movies about reporters, some good, …
Movie Review: The Big Short
Full disclosure: The Big Short by Michael Lewis is one of the best books I’ve read since I left school. It is also one of …
Movie Review: The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl is a serious movie about serious people directed and produced by serious artists. Like any Oscar movie that knows how important it …