There are some movies that would have been better off as a mini-series on HBO of FX. Movies like Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines and Lee Daniels’ The Butler are two that come to mind. Two movies that are very good, but have such rich, deep stories and characters that is impossible to flesh all of it into a two or two and a half hour long movie. These stories would have…
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Anybody who goes into Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark expecting a horrifying film-going experience that will keep you up for days on end has clearly never read the original 1981 book. The book wasn’t made for adults. It wasn’t an epic Stephen King novel that dealt with death, trauma, and gave you enough scares to haunt you everyday for the rest of your life. Scary Stories to Tell in the…
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Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon’s legendary children’s program, is a show that was well after my time, so I was relatively blind going into the live-action adaptation. I knew she had a cousin named Diego, a monkey named Boots, the bad guy was named Swiper and he swiped, and that Dora would ask the screen questions to help its viewers learn. I can’t imagine there is a lot of other things to…
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It’s weird to think, but we might be in the golden age of dog movies right now. With films like A Dog’s Purpose, A Dog’s Way Home, and Isle of Dogs, it seems like every year for the past five years we have gotten a dog movie or two. This Friday, we get our third dog movie of 2019 with The Art of Racing in the Rain, a movie that is sure to make every theater patron ball their eyes…
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A “blank check” is a check that can be written for any amount of money. Someone who receives a blank check is given a check with no specific amount, but has complete freedom to write however much they want on it. In the film world, directors, actors, and producers can receive their own version of a blank check. This could be because of a successful movie or a series of successful…
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The Summer Movie Season is on the homestretch and it is going out with a bang. This summer has been loaded with some pretty great films and August looks no different. What I like most about the movies coming out in August is the diversity in genre and filmmaking. We are getting some really good original content, as well as films from almost every genre, like horror, action, comedy, crime, and some strong indie films. …
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My review of Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature film ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD.
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Quentin Tarantino is one of the few event filmmakers working today. When a new Tarantino movie is coming out, a buzz immediately grows around it. This is thanks to a history of creating genre-bending, original, uniquely written movies for the last thirty years. Tarantino’s career has been full of accolades. His films have accounted for 34 Oscar nominations, including four of his films, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, being nominated for Best…
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Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. He has worked with some of the greatest directors to ever work behind the camera and has starred in some of the biggest and most rewarded movies of all time. He himself has garnered tons of praise over his career, including winning an Oscar in 2016 for his performance in The Revenant. DiCaprio is one of my favorite actors working today and I get…
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The opening credits for Lulu Wang’s The Farewell act as a sort of symbolism for one the film’s central theme. There isn’t anything extravagant here, just simple, opening credit text. But the text that Wang uses is both in Chinese and English. The texts are incredibly different, showing how two cultures from opposite sides of the world see one specific thing totally different. The Farewell is a film that looks at the difference in cultures,…
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