I checked out the new suspense/horror/sci-fi almost experimental film A Quiet Place on Sunday. This is the film written, directed, and starring John Krazinski (Jim from The Office) and co-starring his real life wife Emily Blunt (lucky man). It made … Continue reading
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
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 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
The new family movie Wonder is written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, the writer/director of the excellent and honest The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Chbosky also wrote the Wallflower novel but Wonder is written by another author and the … Continue reading
Checked out a new streaming movie Brawl in Cell Block 99. This is the new movie from the director of the horror western Bone Tomahawk, a movie a lot of people liked (of the few who saw it) but I … Continue reading
So the latest (and first theatrical) adaptation of Stephen King’s It just came out and it’s a really, really solid and effective film. Based on roughly half of the novel, it follows a bunch of outcast “loser” kids as they … Continue reading
Wind River is the new movie by the writer of Sicario and Hell or High Water… two very good, serious and sometimes dark dramas. Taylor Sheridan both wrote and directed this film and he’s got as firm a touch on … Continue reading
The new Wonder Woman movie is the kind of good that the criticism I level at it are the type that other superhero movies (heck, most other movies) only wish they could have. Which also means Wonder Woman is a … Continue reading