THIS IS A 100% SPOILER FREE REVIEW SO KEEP READING, NOTHING WILL GET RUINED. It’s tough reviewing movies like Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker after seeing it only one time. Movies like this, similar to Avengers: Endgame, are some of the biggest movies every put on screen and are a lot of a movie, filled with action set-pieces, a dozen characters, and tons…
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Apparently 2019 was the year Hollywood decided to shit on former Fox News CEO and chairman Roger Ailes. Ailes, a controversial figure who left Fox News after being accused of sexual misconduct from a number of women, passed away in 2017, and in Hollywood, a two year buffer is all you get before a movie can be made about you. Ailes got the television treatment with Showtime’s The Loudest Voice and the…
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As of writing this review, it is almost the middle of December. This time of the year for film critics is a relatively exhausting time. While attempting to see all the movies that are being this month, we are mainly trying to play catch-up on the movies that we missed throughout the year so that we can compile our “end of the year” lists. It’s a great time for those who…
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Clint Eastwood is an old man and cinematic icon. At a brisk 89 years old, Eastwood has been in Hollywood for over sixty years and has been directing films for nearly fifty. Having made a number of award winning films, Eastwood is now in a phase of his life where he will make what he wants, when he wants, and how he wants. This is evident in his films as…
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The race is heating up! Critics groups from across the country have begun to release their “Best of the Year” and there are still dozens of more to come. But more importantly, we’ve gotten our Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, two of the bigger precursors during Oscar season. I don’t put too much weight in the Globes, as they’ve made some questionable choices in the past, but SAG is a relatively important piece…
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The whodunit genre seems to be making a comeback in 2019. Earlier this year we got Murder Mystery, the entertaining and silly Netflix film starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, and now we got Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s all-star follow-up to Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. With Knives Out, Johnson has crafted the most entertaining movie of 2019. A movie the grabs you from frame one and drags you to…
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In arguably the most iconic shot of Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster masterpiece Goodfellas, Scorsese uses a tracking shot to follow Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and Karen (Lorraine Bracco) as they go from the front of the Copacabana to the inside using a side door and cutting through back hallways, staircases, and even though the kitchen to then pop up at the front of the club, where a busboy brings out a table for…
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Surprisingly, my life isn’t 100% consumed by movies. When I’m not watching movies, I am also a major sports fan. No sport is safe for my viewing, as I will watch anything from baseball, basketball, and golf to bizarre sports you might find on ESPN 8: The Ocho. One of the narratives that’s always interested me in sports is when great players retire and the players who fill their position the…
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We’re coming to the end of the 2019 movie year and almost all films with awards hopes have screened. The only real mysteries left at this point are Sam Mendes’ war epic 1917, Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, Tom Hooper’s Cats, and JJ Abrams Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. Greta Gerwig’s hotly anticipated Little Women and the Safdie Brothers Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler, have started screening and movies likes Knives Out and Queen & Slim are getting wide releases at the…
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Ford v Ferrari is a classic American sports underdog story. A movie that bleeds red, white, and blue and will have you wanting to stand up in your chair and cheer, “AMERICA!” Director James Mangold has made a wildly entertaining, rousing racing movie that features stellar direction, excellent performances, and edge-of-your-seat races you won’t forget. It is one of the best movies of 2019. Following another loss to Ferrari at the legendary…
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