Month: November 2019

        I saw Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite a little less than a month ago.  As soon as the credits started rolling I knew I had just watched a truly special film, but I was unsure how special.  I recently saw the film again and was blown away once again.  Bong Joon-Ho has crafted undoubtedly one of the best movies of 2019.  Fewer films have surprised, shocked, and moved me like Parasite did.  And yet, telling you what…

        Harriet Tubman is inarguably one of the greatest Americans to ever live.  The former slave-turned-abolitionist is responsible for freeing hundreds of slaves through various ways, including the Underground Railroad.  She is a true legend and it was only a matter of time before we got a biopic about her and her incredible journey. Kasi Lemmon’s Harriet is the worst kind of biopic.  Not the worst, but the worst kind.  This is…

          Writer/director Robert Eggers burst on to the cinematic scene in 2016 with his haunting debut, The Witch, a movie many consider to be one of the finest horror movies of the decade.  It is one of the strongest debuts of the decade and Eggers immediately established a style of writing and directing that was different and new, which made him one of the most exciting new voices in the game…

        The Terminator franchise is a franchise I wish was over.  In fact, I wrote a piece a few years ago about which franchises needed to die and spoiler for those who wanted to read the list, but the Terminator franchise landed at the number one spot.  It’s a franchise that has been around for almost forty years and one that should have ended ten years ago. James Cameron’s first two films, The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement…