Month: April 2016

I’ve seen a lot of movies in my life.  I’ve seen good movies, bad movies, funny movies, sad movies, scary movies, all sorts of movies.  Movies today rarely surprise me or show me something new.  Sure, we get movies like Gravity (2013) and Birdman (2014) that blow us all away and push the boundaries of filmmaking to another level, but for a majority of films, whatever they’re trying to do has already been done.  Not saying that’s a bad thing, it…

Director Richard Linkater called his latest film a spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused (1993).  Seeing as Dazed and Confused is one of my favorite movies all-time, the bar was set extremely high for Everybody Wants Some!!.  It gives me great pleasure to say that Everybody Wants Some! hits that bar.  This is a funny, sweet, heartfelt nostalgia piece and another great Linklater moment. Everybody Wants Some!! follows a college baseball team in Texas the weekend before classes start.  We watch…