Unlike the movies coming out this month, Netflix is dropping some pretty solid titles this month. Not as much as they usually do, but the five movies I am about to name are pretty great. Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix in January. You can see the full list of movies and T.V. shows being released this month right here 5 – BEE MOVIE (Steve Hickner and Simon…
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For me, Martin Scorsese is the greatest director to ever live. Since bursting on to the scene with 1973’s Mean Streets, Scorsese has shown time and time again his greatness. He has taken us on a number of different journey’s, from the dirty night life of New York cabbie, to going deep into the mafia, to insane asylums. He’s given us gangster films, biopics, thrillers, musicals, religious epics, documentaries, and even a family film. So in…
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Martin Scorsese’s career is filled with great movies, great scenes, and great characters. When dissecting his filmography, you can’t help but be astounded by singular moments. Here are my picks for the best scenes from Martin Scorsese movies. This was an incredibly tough list, and you can watch each scene down below. Also, mild spoilers if you haven’t seen these movies (which if you haven’t, do immediately). 5 – “YOU TALKIN’ TO…
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2016’s biggest mystery has finally been revealed. Throughout the year, it was uncertain when, or if, Martin Scorsese’s religious epic, Silence, was every going to hit theaters. With no trailer or any buzz, it was looking like it was going to be one of my most anticipated titles of 2017. Then, in November, we finally got a trailer and now, the final product, and I have to say, it was well worth the wait. Silence is true cinematic…
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2016 was the year of animation. So many animated movies came out and none of them, I’d consider, were bad. In fact, I’d argue we got at least two or three that could be considered some of the best animated movies of this decade. I didn’t get to see some of the foreign films that were released, nor some of the American releases (I happily skipped Norm of the North). But with that, here is my…
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Fences is a movie the relies solely on the actors involved. Based on the play written by August Wilson, this is a dialog heavy movie with a couple of settings. All of the action comes from the dialog, so without good actors, the action would be stale. Thankfully, the movie stars two of the best actors we have today and is directed by someone close to source material, resulting in an electric, oustanding film. Wilson’s play…
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I don’t usually do this, but this is going to be a SPOILER review. To really express how I truly feel about this movie and certain things that happen, I have to spoil some of the twists the movie has, because the film the trailers say we’re going to get, we really don’t. So, before reading on, SPOILER ALERT! Now that that’s taken care of, Passengers could have been a good movie. In fact, it was…
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Video game movies have had a pretty rough life in the film world. From critical and commercial flops like Super Mario Bros. (1993), Street Fighter (1994), and Max Payne (2008), there really hasn’t been a video game movie that has stood out to be great, or even good for that matter. The genre took a small step forward this year with Duncan Jones’s Warcraft. This film was a visual treat and has me intrigued for more films in the series. Now,…
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Since January, I championed Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation as the very best movie of 2016. I saw fourteen movies before The Birth of a Nation and over 100 after and it was still the very best movie I had seen all year, and by good margin. I knew the film was in for a tough battle to stay at number one during Oscar season, due to the amount of high profile films coming out from some…
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Collateral Beauty is the cinematic equivalent of being promised a giant, juicy dinner and then getting to the table and being served celery wrapped in white bread with a side of white rice. It is incredibly disappointing and painfully bland. The movie is essentially about sad rich people. Howard (Will Smith) is an incredibly successful ad executive with a great team of friends and co-workers behind him (Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Michael Peña). After Howard loses…
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