REVIEW: Blue Jasmine [2013]
“When I did what I did I regretted it” A film dealing with issues of causality, Woody Allen‘s Blue Jasmine provides much more than surface appearances. Rather than simply be a character study of an...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Royal Tenenbaums [2001]
“How interesting. How bizarre!” Nothing Wes Anderson does will ever match the brilliance of his third film, The Royal Tenenbaums. A lot of this has to do with when I first saw it back in the winter of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Still Alice [2014]
“I knew I shouldn’t have had that champagne” There’s little scarier in this world than a debilitating disease like Alzheimer’s. You may initially feel a sentiment as shared by the titular Alice...
View ArticleREVIEW: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation [2015]
“Face your fate” It’s amazing what a few years can do for a celebrity’s image. From couch-jumping in love to rumors of getting written out of the fourth Mission: Impossible installment despite building...
View ArticleREVIEW: Concussion [2015]
“Tell the truth” As of September of 2015 it was reported that 87 former NFL players tested positive for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) out of the 91 deceased men researchers at Boston...
View ArticleREVIEW: Rules Don’t Apply [2016]
“You’re an exception” Eighteen years after Bulworth and fifteen after Town & Country (his last time directing and acting for a feature film respectively), Warren Beatty returns to the big screen...
View ArticleREVIEW: Mission: Impossible – Fallout [2018]
“We’re never free” The former leader of a group of rogue agents seeking to unite people against unchecked government oversight—a cause worthy of pause if not for the terrorist acts of genocide utilized...
View ArticleREVIEW: BlacKkKlansman [2018]
“Did you just use your real name?” The fact that Spike Lee‘s BlacKkKlansman is based on a true story is absolutely crazy. A black rookie cop in Colorado calls the Ku Klux Klan, wins them over with...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Public [2019]
“Books saved my life” It’s the same tragic story. Another unarmed Black man is killed by the police. Another White man takes an arsenal into a school, campus, or place of worship before opening fire on...
View ArticleREVIEW: Framing John DeLorean [2019]
“He is open to interpretation” I was three when Back to the Future immortalized John DeLorean‘s namesake automobile the DMC-12 (known plainly as the DeLorean since no other model was produced). Doc...
View ArticleREVIEW: Motherless Brooklyn [2019]
“I’m chasing his footsteps” Frank Minna (Bruce Willis) was more than a boss to Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton). This man plucked him out of an orphanage wherein the nuns beat him because they believed...
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