After watching and re-watching Friends for the umpteenth time over the years, inexorably memorizing moments from their lives, all six of them finally reunite on screen. The mere knowledge of that happening was mind-boggling per se. To see that happen for real in the form of Friends Reunion 2021 instantly takes you back in time. …
Say what you have to but the Army of the Dead movie entertains you. It doesn’t go heavy in the feels as most of Zack Snyder’s other creations do. It is supposed to be consumed like a light entertainer. Didn’t you miss zombie flicks? Well, Army of the Dead at least walks in as a …
The Little Things Movie Review (2021) | Artful, Inventive, and Unexpected
Some movies tend to walk on a very standard tightrope. You know you have to walk straight. But The Little Things movie is just the exact opposite. You are forced to tread on a string that seems quite straightforward in the beginning, you know, like your average whodunnit thriller and whether you would be able …
What an incredible movie Nomadland is! Chloé Zhao has created a masterpiece based on Jessica Bruder‘s book. It does a thorough perspicacious examination of the lives of Nomads of the RV culture in America, through a third-person perspective of its protagonist Frances McDormand who, by the way, is absolutely fantastic in her role as Fern. …
Doing the movie analysis for Ammonite this time. Ammonite (2020) professes to be biographical or based on a true story, but it actually bends the truth to where it would be revisionist to call it anything but fiction. The trouble I have with Ammonite is that it doesn’t celebrate paleontologist Mary Anning’s life and work …
Over the many decades of film history, we’ve come to acknowledge the great directors and pioneers of film as being mostly men: Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, and James Cameron, to name a few. But few people outside of academia look back to the early days of film, where women like Alice Guy-Blaché, Mabel Normand, and …
What an insane victory! Release the Snyder Cut Movement finally comes to fruition. It has been an emotional joyride, and what a ride has it been. I often revisit the time when I first saw the 2017 version of Justice League considering it to be wholly Zack Snyder’s movie. As I watched it, I had …
Writing the Lost Girls review today with an appalling yet unsatiated appetite. The movie will entangle you in a case that remains a frustrating mystery. With a body count in the double digits, the Long Island serial killings remain one of the top unsolved cases in the U.S. This dramatization of true events will likely …
Wrong Turn (2021) starts out as a fairly conventional horror flick, only to take us on a few unexpected turns along with the ill-fated group of hikers. While horror fans might not see anything too original (since it is more of a reboot of the original Wrong Turn series) in this grisly adventure, it’s a …
Big Fish Movie (2003) defies the very well-known fact that every work of fiction is inspired by reality, and points out that there are some unusual occasions when fiction becomes the source of inspiration for reality. This movie is one of those unusual occasions. Watching Tim Burton‘s Big Fish 2003 is like being transported to …