If you are familiar with “Romancing the Stone,” your view of “The Lost City” may be one thing. If you’re unaware of the Michael Douglas-Kathleen Turner movie, your opinion of this Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum one may be wholly different. Does… Read More ›
Brad Pitt
A Podcast Episode on Change… Sort of
What is it that make “Where’d you go, Bernadette?” and “Once Upon a time… in Hollywood” similar? Well, honestly, they’re both about ways of altering our existence. In the former it is one woman pulling herself out of a funk… Read More ›
Movie Review: “Ad Astra”
So often when movies take us into space, it is so that we can watch things blow up real good. There is, of course, absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it’s also wonderful to see a movie more in the “2001: … Read More ›
Movie Review: "Allied" (2016)
Robert Zemeckis’ new live action film, “Allied,” opens with Brad Pitt’s character, Max Vatan, parachuting into French Morocco in 1942. He lands in the desert and is quickly picked up and brought to Casablanca. A spy, once in the city… Read More ›
"Lass is More" Thinks "The Big Short" Comes up… Short
If you ask me–and you’re reading this so there’s a fair probability that you do–as good as “The Big Short” is, it still is missing something. The Oscar-winning movie does a great job at getting people all riled up (I… Read More ›
"The 33" & "By the Sea" – I say Pass on Both
If you head over to IGN today, you can read my reviews of both “The 33” and “By the Sea.” Not to spoil those pieces, but I’ll tell you right here and now that I was disappointed by both movies…. Read More ›