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Review: Patriots Day Insults The People It Claims To Honor
Title Patriots Day Director: Peter Berg Summary: An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis’s actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it. It’s a fundamental human trait that we are both disgusted and fascinated by acts […]
Review: A Monster Calls Will Make You Ugly Cry
Title: A Monster Calls Director: J.A. Bayona Summary: A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mum’s terminal illness. There are pieces of media in your life that are always going to make you cry. The dog episode of Futurama, the end of Big Fish; these are all things […]
Review: Hidden Figures Shines A Light On Some Forgotten Heroes
Title: Hidden Figures Director: Theodore Melfi Summary: Based on a true story. A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions. There are important movies that come out each year. This year one could argue that the most important movie to come out in […]
Review: ‘Sing’ Aims For Lowest Common Denominator And Still Fails
Title: Sing Director: Christopher Lourdelet and Garth Jennings Summary: A koala named Buster Moon has one final chance to restore his theater to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition. If the box office and television ratings are any indication there are two things that people love; talking animals and singing competitions. […]
Review: ‘Fences’ Has All The Positives And Faults Of Originally Being A Play
Title: Fences Director: Denzel Washington Summary: An African-American father struggles with race relations in the United States while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life. I’ve written about the fact that often adaptations fail because they don’t realize that different mediums are consumed differently. […]
Review: ‘Jackie’ Is A Bunch Of Well Told Anecdotes But Not A Great Movie Overall
Title: Jackie Director: Pablo Larrain Summary: Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s historic legacy. One of the movies that everyone was talking about leading up to the awards season was Jackie, a movie […]
Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Works Because Of Its Ballsy Ending [SPOILERS]
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Title: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Director: Gareth Edwards Summary: The Rebellion makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow. SPOILERS. I AM GOING TO SPOIL THIS ENTIRE MOVIE. DO NOT PROCEED UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN ROGUE ONE I have another gig now […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a Cash Grab That’s Still Worth Watching
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Directed by: Gareth Edwards Screenplay by: Chris Weitz, Tony Gilroy Story by: John Knoll, Gary Whitta Based on Characters by George Lucas Starring: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker Running time 133 minutes Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of sci-fi […]
Rogue One is Breathtakingly Spectacular and Exhilarating [Review]
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Directed by: Gareth Edwards Screenplay by: Chris Weitz, Tony Gilroy Story by: John Knoll, Gary Whitta Based on Characters by George Lucas Starring: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker Running time 133 minutes Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of […]
Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2 Release is Here!
Tuesday, December 13th you can find yourself back into the bloody, gnawing clutches that is Walking Dead! Now we can pick up the Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD collection, or just spread a little holiday spirit with uhh, undead…covered in tinsel? I’m sure I saw that on one of the episodes. Living in the same […]
Review: Manchester By The Sea Is A Painful Depiction Of Real Grief
Title: Manchester by the Sea Director: Kenneth Lonergan Summary: An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. There seems to be two types of movies that start to show up during the award season; movies that are supposed to make you feel better about the state of […]
Review: Moana Is Beautiful, Heartbreaking, And Nearly Perfect
Title: Moana Director: Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker, and Chris Williams Summary: In Ancient Polynesia, when an terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain’s daughter’s island, she answers the Ocean’s call to seek out the demigod to set things right. There are plenty of people, including myself, that believe that Disney is […]
Review: The Edge Of Seventeen Feels Very Genuine
Title: The Edge of Seventeen Director: Kelly Fremon Craig Summary: High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother. There is something about ‘coming of age’ movies that have always rang untrue to me. They seemed to feature these versions of high school that don’t seem […]
Review: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them Expands A Familiar Universe
Title: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them Director: David Yates Summary: The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. I was massively into Harry Potter when the books and movies were first coming out. While I don’t […]
Is Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them Worth Your Money?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Directed by David Yates Written by J. K. Rowling Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo, Colin Farrell Running time 133 minutes Rated PG-13 for some fantasy action violence If you’re unfamiliar with the concept behind Fantastic Beast […]
