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• Movie Review: “Peter Rabbit”

  By Josh Lasser on February 7, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  The dizzying speed at which Peter Rabbit and the camera move along at the opening of the new film based upon the classic stories by Beatrix Potter makes it abundantly clear that this is not your grandfather’s bunny. The characters… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Gets Spooky with “Winchester”

  By Josh Lasser on February 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Not so many a year ago, I lived near the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose.  One of the moderate disappointments of my life is never having gotten the opportunity to visit the place despite being in the area for… Read More ›

• In Which my Eyes are Dilated and I Watch “I, Tonya”

  By Josh Lasser on February 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday I went to the eye doctor (no, mom, nothing is wrong, just a regular old eye exam and, yes, mom, everything was fine). Naturally, the eye doctor dilated my pupils and thereby made it exceptionally difficult for me to… Read More ›

• Notes from a Writer: On Completing Games

  By Josh Lasser on January 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A very odd thing occurred the other day – I beat the final boss in an open world video game. I play games on a fairly regular basis, and I see the end credits roll on a fairly regular basis,… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” has “24 Hours to Live”

  By Josh Lasser on January 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Hitting blu-ray next week is an Ethan Hawke actioner entitled “24 Hours to Live.”  The actor plays a freelance hitman who, for ludicrous reasons, finds himself with… yes, that’s right, 24 hours to live. Instead of solely focusing on the… Read More ›

• Notes from a Writer: The Idea Man

  By Josh Lasser on January 26, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  I regularly worry about ideas. I don’t know where they come from. I don’t know how to find them. Once I have one, I can develop it, I can expand upon it, but it’s that initial, “Oh, here’s an idea”… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Maze Runner: The Death Cure”

  By Josh Lasser on January 24, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  There are probably minor spoilery things below in terms of discussion of plot bits that don’t work. I have left out the names of people at these moments of discussion, but the discussion exists. In the “Maze Runner” films, all… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Pits “The Post” Against Trump

  By Josh Lasser on January 23, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I went to see “The Post” for a second time and rather than taking pages of notes, as I did the first time, I wrote down one sentence:  “Is it possible to root for ‘The Post’ and the Trump administration?”… Read More ›

• One from the Shelf: “Doctor Strange”

  By Josh Lasser on January 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Here we are, back again with another One from the Shelf. This new selection is “Doctor Strange,” a movie I most definitely was not in love with when it came out. I tweeted something about being bored by the story… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Mom and Dad” (2018)

  By Josh Lasser on January 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Some of the key duties that come with being a parent include raising one’s children to be responsible adults and protecting them along the way. This is why the setup for “Mom and Dad,” a horror tale from writer-director Brian… Read More ›

• “Lass is More”: “Maze Runner” is like “The Commuter,” but Good

  By Josh Lasser on January 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I am often intrigued by the setup of a movie — the way it builds whatever problem is to be tackled, or the way it creates the world in which the movie is to take place.  That said, all too… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Paddington 2”

  By Josh Lasser on January 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  We are only starting the second week in January and it therefore feels a little presumptuous to write about a new film something like “quite possibly the most fun you’ll have at the movies all year,” but “Paddington 2” very… Read More ›

• One from the Shelf: “The Muppet Movie”

  By Josh Lasser on January 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In my 2018 outlook piece, I said I was looking at doing a new series called “One from the Shelf,” and here we are, less than a week later and I have the first installment finished. Before I get to… Read More ›

• Watching Television: Am I Just Too Old?

  By Josh Lasser on January 3, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  In recent years I have covered more film than television, but don’t mistake that for my not watching TV, it’s just that my viewing habits have changed. This change stems from a number of factors, but I think that chief… Read More ›

• Setting Expectations for 2018

  By Josh Lasser on January 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  And so here we are in 2018. What does that mean for The TV and Film Guy’s Reviews? Well, I’ll tell you right now that I love all the movie reviews we did last year, more than any previous single… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Shoots for “Killing Gunther”

  By Josh Lasser on December 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I see a lot of bad movies.  A lot of them.  And that’s okay.  I keep going back in and trying again.  This week, I tried “Killing Gunther.”  It’s a low-budget action-comedy from Taran Killam.  Starring Killam, Cobie Smulders, Arnold… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “All the Money in the World”

  By Josh Lasser on December 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I walked 25 minutes, each way, in a windy and chilly New York City in order to save seven dollars on parking for my screening of “All the Money in the World.” Those seven bucks represent a 50% decrease in… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Downsizing”

  By Josh Lasser on December 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  There is a genius of an idea within “Downsizing,” the new movie from Alexander Payne (“Sideways,” “The Descendants”), which he directs and wrote with Jim Taylor.   Starring Matt Damon and Hong Chau, this is the tale of people who have… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Phantom Thread”

  By Josh Lasser on December 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I do not know what I expected sitting down for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread.” The film, written and directed by Anderson, stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, and Lesley Manville. It is the story of an idiosyncratic dress designer in… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Post” (2017)

  By Josh Lasser on December 20, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Given his druthers, Donald Trump would destroy our freedoms. He would undermine the First Amendment of the United States of America, eliminating any and all publications (no matter the medium) which disagree with any of his stances and/or dare to… Read More ›

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