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• Movie Review: “21 Bridges”

  By Josh Lasser on November 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The new Chadwick Boseman film, “21 Bridges,” takes its name from the 21 bridges that lead on/off the island of Manhattan. The basic notion of the film is that an NYPD detective, Andre Davis (Boseman), is tasked with finding robbers… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Knight Before Christmas”

  By Josh Lasser on November 21, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For better or worse, Netflix’s new movie, “The Knight Before Christmas” is exactly as advertised. Directed by Monika Mitchell with a screenplay by Cara Russell, this is an extremely low-stakes tale of a single woman in 2019 Ohio falling in… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

  By Josh Lasser on November 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Watching “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” one inescapable truth came to the fore: I am a cynical human being. Technically I knew this before I sat down to watch this inspired-by-reality tale of Mr. Rogers’ influence on the life… Read More ›

• Dora and the Call of Adventure

  By Josh Lasser on November 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  After two weeks off, the podcast returns today with a look at the desire to go off on an adventure.  Yes, wherever you may be in life at this moment, we would bet that either in the past, the present,… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Good Liar”

  By Josh Lasser on November 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  From an early moment in “The Good Liar,” it is quite clear what one of the big twists will be down the line. That made this reviewer rather trepidatious. On the one hand, watching two masters like Ian McKellen and… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Warrior Queen of Jhansi”

  By Josh Lasser on November 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Is “The Warrior Queen of Jhansi,” a new film Swati Bhise a case of printing the legend? This reviewer would never deign to suggest that he knows enough about Indian history to even hazard a guess. What is clear about… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Lighthouse” (2019)

  By Josh Lasser on November 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There is an incredible sense of claustrophobia that immediately makes itself felt with “The Lighthouse.” Director Robert Eggers has opted to create his film in the 1.19:1 aspect ratio as opposed to what we usually see on the big screen… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Ford V Ferrari”

  By Josh Lasser on November 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  To start at the end, it is the final irony that James Mangold’s new film is titled “Ford V Ferrari” and not “Shelby and Miles V Ford.” This is a movie—a wonderful movie—which is so much less about Ford going… Read More ›

• “Badland” and Ticking the Trope Boxes

  By Josh Lasser on October 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  This weekend the new movie, “Badland,” hits theaters and streaming platforms.  Written and directed by Justin Lee, the film stars Kevin Makely.  It’s a western, and it ticks all the boxes you would imagine a western would hit. But, is… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Terminator: Dark Fate”

  By Josh Lasser on October 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There is a moment early on in “Terminator: Dark Fate” where anything seems possible; where it feels like the story truly could head anywhere. It is a false a hope; a lie. “Dark Fate,” the sixth entry in the “Terminator”… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Kill Team” (2019)

  By Josh Lasser on October 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As sometimes the two things are confused, it must be stated that just because the story told in a movie is important, the movie is not automatically a “good” movie. In this case, no one would argue that the tale,… Read More ›

• Worthwhile Spins (like “Galaxy Quest”) vs. “The Lion King” (2019)

  By Josh Lasser on October 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There is nothing wrong with Disney going out and deciding that they’re going to remake every single movie they’ve ever made before.  What is wrong is doing that without a specific, new, take on whatever movie it is they’re making…. Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Zombieland: Double Tap”

  By Josh Lasser on October 17, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It has been 10 years since the first “Zombieland” movie arrived on the big screen and not only have things changed in our world, they’ve changed within that of the franchise’s as well. Yes, the specifics are different what with… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Cyrano, My Love”

  By Josh Lasser on October 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Watching the new movie “Cyrano, My Love” it is easy to recall the Oscar-winning “Shakespeare in Love.” After all, the latter is a tale about Shakespeare and his troubles writing “Romeo and Juliet” and the former is a tale about… Read More ›

• The Pull of the B Movie

  By Josh Lasser on October 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Neither “Crawl” nor “Night Hunter” are likely to win any awards, but the two thrillers grab you by the collar and don’t let go for the length of their run, and there’s something incredible to be said about that.  Well,… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Gemini Man”

  By Josh Lasser on October 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Writing about “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” I stated, ” The changes to the language of cinema Ang Lee has made with this work are not yet fully understood, nor codified.”  I further referred to the movie as “an oddity.”  Here… Read More ›

• “1917” Cast and Crew Talk One-Take Film

  By Josh Lasser on October 8, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  I have gone to some good New York Comic-Con panels in the past, but hands-down, the one for “1917” is my all-time favorite. It was therefore extra rewarding that following the panel I got to chat one-on-one with two of… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Little Monsters”

  By Josh Lasser on October 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  At this point in time, if you’re going to make a zombie movie, you have to do something different with it.  You can’t just have zombies attack a small group of holdouts in a shopping mall anymore.  We have all… Read More ›

• NYCC 19: “Lincoln” Rhyme and The Bone Collector

  By Josh Lasser on October 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Once upon a time, way back in 1999, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie starred in a movie called “The Bone Collector.”  The film was based on the first novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series by Jeffrey Deaver and at the… Read More ›

• NYCC 2019: “Are you Afraid of the Dark?” Again

  By Josh Lasser on October 5, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  I was a little too old to watch “Are you Afraid of the Dark?” the first time the series came around, but maybe I’m old enough once more now that the show is back for a miniseries airing on Nickelodeon… Read More ›

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