Category: Movies
Top 5 Summer Camp Movies
With Memorial Day here and COVID numbers subsiding, I have begun to reminisce about my days at Summer Camp. Summer Camp movies have some pretty well known tropes. The majority […]
Every 2021 Best Picture Nomination, Ranked
About a year ago I was having a conversation with my friend Edgar on a podcast about what the 2021 awards season, especially big categories like best picture, would even […]
Review of Minari
Minari is the rare combination of technically stunning filmmaking married with heartwarming and raw storytelling, which is all the more impressive in a bilingual film. As a sum unit, Minari […]
Zack Snyder’s Justice League was Worth the Fuss
Usually when a bunch of nerds, of which I am one, clamor for change to one of their beloved properties, it’s at best a net neutral. Given this, I was […]
Judas and the Black Messiah Refreshed the Biopic
Judas and the Black Messiah felt like cinema. Excluding a few gems that were always intended for the small screen, like Palm Springs, this past year of hybrid model movie […]
Fatman is a Wild Ride
Fatman fits the year 2020 perfectly. The past few years have produced some Christmas films with potential to become classics. Klaus (2019) and The Grinch (2018) are wonderful animated Christmas […]
The 5 Best Thanksgiving Movies
I’ve put together a list of the five best Thanksgiving movies, it wasn’t easy. Few holidays serve as cinematic inspiration. Christmas and Halloween certainly represent the vast majority of calendar […]
Review: The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie understands what is needed to make a great movie. Coming into the scene as a young filmmaker he gave us Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, […]
Review: “The Invisible Man”
Elizabeth Moss can do no wrong. She’s helped develop two of the greatest television protagonists in Peggy Olsen (Mad Men) and June Osborne/Offred (A Handmaid’s Tale). She’s stolen the spotlight […]
Review: “Midsommar”
I was not in a hurry to watch Midsommar. There is a trope in the horror genre to take an innocent cultural moment and cloak it in the occult. I […]