Favorite. It’s such a loaded word. Can you really pick a favorite anything? Ask me my favorite song, album, book, food, whatever, and it’ll likely be different when you ask me again next week.
But with film, it’s been easy. From as far back as my memories go, it was always Ghostbusters, and then from 2003 to current day, it’s been Lost In Translation. Clearly, Bill Murray (or at least his on-screen personas) has always been braided into the fabric…
I've seen this a bunch of times in my life; it was always on HBO when I was a kid. I don’t remember ever sitting down and watching it in full until I was in my 20’s though. It's totally fine - it's got some funny parts, the set/makeup/creature/costume designs are really great, and it has Andre the Giant, an automatic win.
I've never really understand the adoration for The Princess Bride though. Maybe understand isn't the right word. I…
Difficult watch, but impeccably made. The End We Start From shows how quickly everything we have can be taken away, but also how resilient human beings can be, especially women.
This was more or less a blind watch, all I knew about it was the Letterbox synopsis, so there were many turns this story took that kept me on my toes, but it’s very propulsive. The main characters are always on the move from one situation to the next, and…
For real. I mean sure, there is nostalgia involved, but even taking that into account, this is legitimately a great movie. Yes, it’s inane, and the plot is ridiculous, but if you liked Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, what’s not to love here? It plays by the same preposterous rules, it has a terrific, memorable Danny Elfman score (no small feat considering he was blocked from reusing any of the score from the first movie), it’s vibrant and original and…
Jeremy Saulnier returns with his long-awaited fifth effort, and holy shit, I’m so glad Hold The Dark was an aberration. Rebel Ridge had its hooks in me from minute one, and was full-throttle for over two hours. Legitimately one of the tensest films I’ve ever seen in my life.
Saulnier once again crafts this incredible synergy between an exceptional story and a cast able to deliver intensely complex, layered backstory and motivations with as few words as possible. I always feel almost…
