Got around to checking out Phantom Thread tonight and I wish I’d gone sooner. It was pretty great. I was concerned because I wasn’t the biggest fan of Paul Thomas Anderson’s last films (Inherent Vice and The Master) and, frankly, … Continue reading
Caught up on the film Marshall on iTunes rental the other day. This is a movie about a case Thurgood Marshall took years before he became the first black justice on the US Supreme Court. The film has Marshall … Continue reading
Check out I, Tonya – the new Margot Robbie film about Tonya Harding’s life, ice skating, abuse, the Olympics, taking a baton to a skater’s knee, and a host of unreliability narrators. It’s almost Rashomon if, instead of samurai, it … Continue reading
Checked out the new Spielberg directed, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep starring movie The Post last night. This is the film about the Washington Post and their risky move to publish articles on the Pentagon Papers. Those were the stolen … Continue reading
Also caught up on Molly’s Game, the new film both written and directed by dialogue-dynamo Aaron Sorkin. Based on a true story (and book) that I completely missed in real life about Molly Bloom, a former Olympic skier turned high … Continue reading
Checked out Darkest Hour, the new drama about Winston Churchill’s appointment as Prime Minister of Britain and the few months following, including the Dunkirk evacuation and his “we shall never surrender” speech. The film is most notable for starring an … Continue reading
Checked out the new historical drama All the Money in the World. This is the true story of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty’s grandson in the mid 1970s and the attempt to rescue him without much help from the … Continue reading
Checked out the mis-titled and mis-marketed movie Father Figures. This is the comedy about two brothers (Ed Helms and Owen Wilson) who find out their mother wasn’t honest with them about who their father was. Since it was the 70s, … Continue reading
Also rented on ITunes (also available on YouTube Red – their paid service) the film The Thinning. If you watch enough YouTube, you know this as the film that tells you how many sides a pentagon has before you hit … Continue reading
Checked out the very well made movie The Disaster Artist, based on the book about the creation of The Room, one of those “Worst Movie Ever” movies. Made in 2003, The Room is notoriously bad and the subject of countless … Continue reading