As you know by now, “Moonlight” took home some significant prizes at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony. Rather than watching the shenanigans unfold live, I was actually watching the movie itself again, and I came away with some thoughts on… Read More ›
I may be on vacation this week, but it’s awards season and the podcast must go on. Today we’re talking about the way in which two different Academy Award nominees utilize flashbacks. First, there’s “Nocturnal Animals,” which jumps backwards in… Read More ›
Matt Damon leads the cast in Zhang Yimou’s Chinese fantasy film, “The Great Wall,” which is opening in theaters this week. And, if it seems like an odd choice to have Damon lead a cast in a movie about monsters… Read More ›
I don’t know everything (my wife will be very happy I’ve said this, the sad thing is she doesn’t read this site and therefore won’t know that I’ve said this… therefore, let’s just keep this secret between us, okay?), but… Read More ›
There have been a lot of Batman movies and no one is more aware of this than the people behind “The LEGO Batman Movie.” Over and over again throughout this “LEGO Movie” spinoff, we are reminded of the plethora of… Read More ›
There is a certain greatness to films that know what they want to be and go out and execute that plan with panache. “John Wick: Chapter 2” is the sort of film that is going to turn off a lot… Read More ›
“Arrival” is one of my top 10 movies of 2016. No, I haven’t made a list, but if I had made, “Arrival” would be on it. It is one of those rare movies that, as soon as I finished watching… Read More ›
There are many out there who will tell you that people don’t change, that we are who we are and that’s it. Such seems to be the philosophy behind the new Robert De Niro comedy, “The Comedian.” Directed by Taylor… Read More ›
One of the things that always strikes me about documentaries is just how powerful a tool the form can be. Wielded correctly, with laser focus, it burns away all the extraneous nonsense and gets to the core of an issue;… Read More ›
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