Movie Review: 13th
Ava DuVernay did the near impossible with Selma: she made an emotionally complex movie about Martin Luther King Jr. without resulting to outright simplistic hero …
2016
Top 10 Movies for 2016 – 5 Year Revision
2016 is a weird year at the movies. A lot of the big studios produced big disappointments, no one more so than DC Comics, who …
Who the Academy Should Have Nominated…
WINNERS ARE IN BOLD: Best Picture Arrival Hell or High Water Captain America: Civil War Zootopia Moonlight Everybody Wants Some!! Kubo and the Two Strings …
Movie Review: Elle
Paul Verhoeven must have a fascinating inner life. The dude brought to life really interesting movies like Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct and Robocop, but also …
Movie Review: The Salesman
Asghar Farhadi is in the current director pantheon, in my opinion. Farhadi, Richard Linklater, Park Chan-wook, and Adam McKay are on the Mt. Rushmore of …
Movie Review: Paterson
It’s really hard to tell a story about a normal person where nothing happens to them. Only Richard Linklater can make movies about nothing that …
Movie Review: The Founder
I spent a lot of the last few years traveling. Yet, I never really got very homesick? How is that possible? Is Europe just that …
Movie Review: Patriot’s Day
I distinctly remember much of the Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers. It culminated in that great David Ortiz speech at …
Movie Review: 20th Century Women
A24 and Annapurna are the most intriguing movie financing/distribution companies out there right now. So my interest in 20th Century Women went up 20% simply …
Movie Review: A Monster Calls
Movie manipulation is a fine line to walk when crafting a film. When done right, you get something like ET, a brilliant tear inducing experience …