Checked out the new movie Gifted last night, an utterly charming and sweet movie about an uncle taking care of his sister’s little girl who happens to be a genius. I saw the trailer a number of times but it … Continue reading
Also saw Patriots Day, the new – and third in a row – film by director Peter Berg and actor Mark Whalberg. This follows their collaboration on Lone Survive and Deepwater Horizon and is also a real-life docudrama, this one … Continue reading
M. Night Shyamalan is back in a really impressive way with his new movie Split. Checked out an early Thursday showing and I’m so happy to see his little indie found footage movie The Visit from last year was not … Continue reading
Watched the 2016 documentary Tower which is now available streaming. This one is about the University of Texas sniper who terrorized the campus in 1966. Charles Whitman took over the tower on campus and indiscriminately shot and killed/wounded around 50 … Continue reading
Checked out La La Land, the new old timey yet new timey musical starring two very ugly people: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. There lives are true tragedies with their perfect faces. Sigh. Anyhow, La La Land is a … Continue reading
Manchester by the Sea is a new drama that has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz for lead actor Casey Affleck and he deserves it. This is small, slow moving actor’s movie about a closed-down man who is informed … Continue reading
Nocturnal Animals is an interesting and even fascinating but bleak and dark indie film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, and Armie Hammer. So it’s a great cast in a very good and certainly … Continue reading
Captain Fantastic is a 2016 movie that got a limited release earlier in 2016 and is now available via streaming. It stars Viggo Mortenson as a man living in the woods on the Pacific Northwest with his six children. He … Continue reading
The Hunt for the WIlderpeople is a new super quirky New Zealand film released this year and available via streaming. Basic premise is a New Zealand orphaned street kid who thinks he’s gangster (he names his dog 2Pac though his … Continue reading
Also checked out The Birth of a Nation, the new film about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in 1831. Many people may recognize the title of the movie as that of the rightfully infamous DW Griffith film from 1919… one of … Continue reading