Also went to see the new music-infused film Blinded by The Light. This is a movie positively dripping with the music of Bruce Springsteen but isn’t actually either a jukebox musical or a biopic. I’m sure it was made with … Continue reading
Checked out the new indie darling The Farewell. This movie stars Awkwafina in a more dramatic roll than we’ve seen her in so far. I’m not super familiar with her other than she’s a stand-up comedian and has been in … Continue reading
Midsommar is the second film by Ari Astor who made a big splash with his first cerebral/weird horror flick Hereditary last year. Hereditary was an acquired taste, a slow burn, a moody art house horror flick with a freak-out ending. … Continue reading
The new movie Yesterday is in love with The Beatles… and hopefully you are too if you go see it. This is a high-concept comedy / romantic comedy written by the guy who wrote fine romantic comedies like Notting Hill … Continue reading
I went into Toy Story 4 thinking it really didn’t need to exist. Toy Story 3 was a perfectly good send-off to the series, packing an emotional punch and a conclusion that reminded us all we have to grow up … Continue reading
Checked on the new Netflix original Always Be My Maybe. I went into it blind, not realizing their was a pop culture bomb in the middle of the movie they had originally kept secret… and then spoiled in the trailer. … Continue reading
Checked out the new romantic comedy Long Shot which is about a kind of schluby guy dating the prettiest gal in Hollywood. But, to be fair, at least this time the shlubbiness is part of the plot… so there’s a … Continue reading
The new movie Breakthrough is, to me, a movie I’m happy was finally released. Happy because I saw the same trailer for this thing at nearly every movie I went to see (and you know that’s a lot – dozens … Continue reading
So I checked out the movie The Public the other day… and I can say with some assurance that this is the very best movie ever produced about the Cincinnati Public Library that has yet been made. Might even be … Continue reading
So I grinned my way through the latest DC superhero flick Shazam! That wasn’t an excited sentence, the ! is in the title (Shazam!). And that’s pretty apt since the movie sometimes feels like a overexcited puppy… and other times … Continue reading