What does it take to bring the imagination of one child to life on the big screen? J.A. Bayona has the answer and offers it up in the utterly heartbreaking, completely devastating, totally brilliant “A Monster Calls.” Written by… Read More ›
Month: December 2016
Movie Review: "20th Century Women"
It feels like this year in general, and this time of year in particular, is the right moment to ask ourselves a question about what constitutes a family. I would argue—as I believe I have previously—that family isn’t simply something… Read More ›
Movie Review: "Patriot’s Day"
Director Peter Berg is great with depicting action sequences in a powerful, believable, riveting manner. We have already seen this once in 2016 with “Deepwater Horizon.” However, Berg is even better, an absolute master, when it comes to militaristic action…. Read More ›
"Lass is More" Knows Something About George Bailey
“It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of those films which I watch every year. Every. Single. Year. It’s been that way for the better part of a decade, and the movie never seems to get old, it never seems to… Read More ›
Movie Review: "Sing" (2016)
If you have watched any of the trailers for “Sing,” you have been, as you would be for any movie, conditioned to expect certain things from the film. In this case that’s a whole lot of animated animals singing pop… Read More ›
Movie Review: "Why Him?"
The James Franco-Bryan Cranston-Zoey Deutch comedy, “Why Him?” is not entirely devoid of laughs. That isn’t particularly high praise, but the movie isn’t particularly funny and it never feels like it’s trying terribly hard. I know I regularly bring up… Read More ›
Movie Review: "Office Christmas Party"
The more I watch Kate McKinnon on television and in movies, the more convinced I am that she is going to be here making people laugh for years to come (and the happier I am about that fact, too). She… Read More ›
Movie Review: "La La Land"
There are fewer musicals produced by Hollywood than there used to be. Well, I say that there are but I haven’t run the numbers, I assume that there are… it certainly feels like there are. When they come along though,… Read More ›
"Lass is More" Goes Political with "Florence Foster Jenkins"
The description for “Lass is More” states that the movies and television shows which we watch are not created in a vacuum. No, these things exist in a dialogue with the real world. So, today, even if I would rather… Read More ›
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