It’s Oscar time! The one night a year where we celebrate everything that is great in cinema! Regardless of how I feel about the nominees, I love Oscar night and I love everything that goes into the show. It’s big, glitzy, absurd, but it’s always a great time to watch and see the winners, especially ones that I like. With that being said, here are my predictions for the…
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The Oscar race is heating up and the race is getting tighter. With all the critics awards, along with the Golden Globes, there is a pretty solid picture of most of the movies that will be nominated and which ones are the frontrunners. But the Academy has been known for some wild nominations and snubs over the years, so who’s getting in and who’s going to miss? Will a heavyweight like The Irishman or 1917 under-perform? Will a…
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I’ve been writing full-length film reviews seriously for over three years now. Every year, I feel I have made progressive strides forward as a film critic, whether it be improved writing, producing more content, getting more viewership, whatever it may be. But last week, I hit a new milestone and something I had a feeling would happen at some point, just not yet. I was verbally attacked on Twitter by troll. I’ve had spam accounts…
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Over the last two weeks, I had been attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Throughout the festival, you are constantly hearing about movies that played at the festival. You hear about potential award winners, surprise sleepers, and complete disasters. You also ignore all movies that are released in regular theaters during the festival because they’re either last year roll-over films that we’d already seen or the January garbage that generally comes out….
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This is one of the strongest months Netflix has had all year. I could have made a list of ten or fifteen movies, that’s how many good ones are coming. The five that I picked include four films that could make a strong case to land in my top 100 movies ever and one of my personal favorite Schwarzenegger movies. Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix in August. Check…
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Best F(r)iends is the newest film from Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, the two men behind the best-worst movie ever made, The Room. Best F(r)iends is directed by Justin MacGregor and was written by Sestero, who also stars in the film, along with Wiseau. The film is a four hour-long epic that was split into two parts, Volume I and Volume II, a la Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. The movie looks at Jon (Sestero), a drifter who meets Harvey (Wiseau), a…
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Continuing to look at the best and worst movies of 2017, here are my picks for the best movies from each genre. BEST ANIMATED FILM – COCO Runner Up – Mutafukaz In a relatively weak year for animation, Pixar reigns supreme with it’s heart-tugging, musical gem. BEST FOREIGN FILM – THE MERCILESS Runner Up – The Square The Merciless is a slick, fun, twisty, Departed-esque gangster flick that is wildly entertaining…
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After every year, I take a look back at the movies and movie news throughout the year and reflect on all that happened. I reflect on the biggest stories, the biggest movies, and the ones that surprised us. These are five big things that I took away from the 2017 movie year. 5 – MATT DAMON’S TERRIBLE YEAR Matt Damon has been one of Hollywood’s top talents for over twenty…
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This weekend, the highly anticipated The Fate of the Furious comes out, the eighth (that’s right, eight!) film in the Fast and Furious franchise. The film is directed by F Gary Gray (The Italian Job (2003), Straight Outta Compton (2015)) and stars familiar faces Vin Diesel, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Jason Statham, Kurt Russell, and adds Charlize Theron as the villain. From watching the trailers, the movie is going to be just as…
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2016 has finally come to an end and it is time to look at the best movies of 2016 as well as the worst of 2016. It has been one hell of a year for cinema. I saw more movies this year than any other year before. I was exposed to so many genres and filmmakers, some new, some old. But, with every year, I learn some things along the way while watching all the…
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