Month: December 2020

        Wonder Woman 1984 was one of the major titles that got affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Slated to come out on June 5, 2020 – after being pushed back from November 2019 – the highly anticipated sequel was victim of the movie theaters shutting down in March.  After going back-and-forth in deciding whether to even release the film this year, Warner Bros. made the decision to release the film in theaters –…

        Pixar has been making movies for over twenty-five years now and throughout those twenty-five years they have done a great job of making movies that appeal to both children and adults.  Whether it be a fun character for the kids to love or a deep theme that adults connect to, Pixar movies have something for everyone, which I would argue is a key piece as to why they have had so…

        To say that the 2020 movie year has been unlike any other movie year before it would be an understatement.  Thanks to a global pandemic, movie theaters have been shutdown for a majority of the year, causing a lot movies to be pushed to 2021 or even later.  The movies that have been released this year have either been released through a streaming service or paid on-demand.  Though there has been…

          Mank tells the story screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz’s journey in writing 1941’s Citizen Kane, a film that many critics and scholars consider to be the greatest film of all-time.  But Mank isn’t a typical biopic about a man and his crowning career achievement.  This is a behind-the-curtain look at the Hollywood system in the 1930’s and 1940’s, the moguls who ran it, and a troubled man who just happened to write one of…