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• “Lass is More” on “mother!,” “Stronger,” & “Blood Money”

  By Josh Lasser on December 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This is it (we think), the last podcast of the year.  Rather than doing some grand look back at 2017, we’ve opted to take a gander at a final three films that are just arriving on blu-ray. Yup, we’re going… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”

  By Josh Lasser on December 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This is the moment in the year when we see so many different awards contenders hit the big screen, when people start talking about Oscar favorites and who is going to win at the Golden Globes. It is also one… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Molly’s Game”

  By Josh Lasser on December 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  When at his best, Aaron Sorkin is a master speechwriter. He can deliver to actors and actresses the most compelling words that somehow feel tailor-made for that particular actor/actress to deliver as the character in question. They are exhilarating to… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Ferdinand”

  By Josh Lasser on December 14, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Ferdinand is a big, scary, bull.  So characters say (or act) in the Carlos Saldanha movie of the same name, which is based on the book by Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson.  Of course, he’s not drawn as… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Interviews “Love and Saucers” Director Brad Abrahams

  By Josh Lasser on December 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  On today’s podcast we talk with Brad Abrahams, the director of a new documentary called “Love and Saucers.”  The film is focused on David Huggins, a man who claims to have been contacted by aliens on multiple occasions. While it… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “I, Tonya”

  By Josh Lasser on December 7, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  It was impossible to miss the coverage of the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan story back in 1994. It was impossible to miss Harding’s complaints about her laces during the Olympic Games later that winter. Of course, the events that get into… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Wonders if “Despicable Me” has Gone Bad

  By Josh Lasser on December 5, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  There was a time when my son loved the Minions.  He couldn’t get enough of them.  With “Despicable Me 3,” however, that love seems to have waned.  I don’t think it’s that he’s growing out of them, I have a… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Shape of Water” (2017)

  By Josh Lasser on November 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I don’t love “Pacific Rim” or “Crimson Peak,” Guillermo del Toro’s two most recent (outside this film) directorial efforts. I think that both movies have things to recommend them and are, at minimum, beautiful to watch unfold, but I find… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Thinks Back on “Rememory”

  By Josh Lasser on November 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Who hasn’t thought back on a day gone by, be it a happier one or a sadder one?  Who hasn’t wondered if they could have done something differently or just wanted to relive a moment over and over? Looking back… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” and Noël Wells talk “Mr. Roosevelt “

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

  

  You may know her from “Saturday Night Live” or “Master of None,” but those are not her only credits. In fact, both of those are acting credits, but Noël Wells is a writer and director as well. Wells’ first directorial feature,… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Darkest Hour”

  By Josh Lasser on November 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Winston Churchill has gone down in history as a titan, a man who threw an entire nation on his back and carried it through some of its most difficult days. The picture offered of him in “The Darkest Hour,” the… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Justice League”

  By Josh Lasser on November 16, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Were someone to ask for a two-word review of “Justice League,” I would sum up the DCEU film as “entirely underwhelming.” The film series may have partially righted the ship with this year’s incredibly impressive “Wonder Woman,” but this Zack… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Daddy’s Home 2”

  By Josh Lasser on November 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I referred to the 2015 Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy, “Daddy’s Home,” as, “an easy-going comedy with two very funny men at its center.” I went on to write that, “even if the movie doesn’t break new ground or explore new… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017)

  By Josh Lasser on November 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  At the end of Neil Simon’s comedic spin on the detective genre, “Murder by Death,” the classic detectives are given a comeuppance. The frustrations of the average reader/viewer are taken out as it is explained to the detectives that they’ve… Read More ›

• “Lass is More”: What do “Cars 3” & “The Glass Castle” Teach us About Personality

  By Josh Lasser on November 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This week marks our 100th “meander” episode of the podcast! To celebrate (maybe) we’re talking about how the various bits of our history help shape our personality and how that can come across (or not) in movies. Well, I say… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Conor McGregor: Notorious”

  By Josh Lasser on November 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This past summer, UFC fighter Conor McGregor lost to Floyd Mayweather in a highly publicized boxing match. The fight was McGregor’s first time in the ring as a professional boxer, however, he does currently hold a UFC belt (and has… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “A Bad Moms Christmas”

  By Josh Lasser on November 1, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  There is something truly smart in the opening of “A Bad Moms Christmas,” the sequel to 2016’s “Bad Moms.” As Mila Kunis’ Amy explains it – Christmas is an incredibly hard time of the year to be a mom. There… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” and Maggie Betts go to a Nunnery

  By Josh Lasser on October 31, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  On this week’s podcast, writer-director Maggie Betts is here to talk about her film, “Novitiate.” The tale of one nunnery struggling to come to terms with Vatican II, the film stars Margaret Qualley and Melissa Leo. This is Betts’ first… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

  By Josh Lasser on October 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The Martin McDonagh written and directed “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri” begins with a mother, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), deciding to rent some billboards in order to highlight the local police department’s inability to catch her daughter’s rapist and… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” on “Dreamgirls,” “Spider-Man,” and Fame

  By Josh Lasser on October 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  There are individuals who are driven towards fame, driven towards money, driven towards power.  It is a combination which–sometimes–attracts very bad people. It is also a heady mix for which I have no desire.  Well, the money part would be… Read More ›

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