Month: November 2015

Room is the most emotional movie going experience I have had all year.  It is a heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of hope, perseverance, and awakenings.  It is filled with tension, raw emotion, sadness, and joy and features two dazzling performances from two young, talented actors. Room, adapted from the novel by Emma Donaghue, is told through the eyes of five year old Jack (newcomer Ethan Tremblay).  He and his mother, Ma, (Brie Larson) are enclosed in…

In my review for Sicario (check it out here), I wrote how it was hard for a director to follow up a masterpiece.  The same can be said for a screenwriter.  Aaron Sorkin’s last solo screenplay was for The Social Network in 2010.  (He co-wrote Moneyball in 2011 with Steve Zaillian).  The Social Network is an all-timer for me.  It is expertly crafted and acted and captures the state of communication and technology in today’s…

I grew up reading the Goosebumps books.  They were fun, creepy, and well written.  The idea of a Goosebumps movie had me intrigued and worried because this isn’t an exact adaptation of one specific book, which was fine because they did those very well with the television show.  However, every creature from every book is in this movie and I was worried it was going to be a cheesy kids flick with Marvel syndrome of…

Let’s pretend you hate strawberries.  Now let’s pretend someone takes a bunch of strawberries and makes them look all fancy with chocolate, and some fancy sauce, and makes the strawberries look unrecognizable.  You see this fancy treat and you get excited like, “Oh, that looks good.”  And then you take a bite and realize it is a strawberry, becoming immediately disappointed because you hate it.  You put the strawberry down and look at the others and…