Movie Reviews

      Crazy Rich Asians is one of the most enjoyable movies I have seen in 2018.  It’s a fun, funny, exciting, heart-warming movie about culture, family, and the power of love. Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) is an NYU economics professor, happily dating the seemingly normal Nick Young (Henry Golding).  When Nick invites Rachel to Singapore for his best friends wedding, Rachel quickly finds out that Nick is part of a real estate empire…

        Spike Lee burst on to the cinematic scene in the late 80’s and immediately became a name to be reckoned with.  With his brash style and socially conscience films, Lee produced some masterful films, like Do the Right Thing, which is an American masterpiece, and Malcolm X, a searing biopic about the civil rights leader.  Lee kicked off the 2000’s with one to the most underrated films of this millennium, 25th Hour, and it…

      The Mission: Impossible franchise is Tom Cruise’s franchise.  Not only does Cruise star in the films, but he’s produces each film in the series and handpicks the directors for each film, usually a different one each time.  No actor has ever had this much power on franchise in cinematic history.  What having this much power has done is allow Cruise to showcase how absolutely insane he is.  Notorious for doing his own stunts, Cruise…

        Walking out of The Equalizer 2, I had a feeling that I hadn’t felt in a long, long time.  It’s a feeling that I don’t like and it’s a feeling that I knew would come eventually, but one I wasn’t prepared.  It was the feeling of disappointment. You might be thinking, “what do you mean you haven’t been disappointed in a movie in awhile?”  That’s not the disappointment I’m talking about.  I…

I don’t watch a ton of T.V., mostly because I am constantly watching movies, both new releases and repeat viewings.  But when I do watch T.V., a lot of what I watch is on the Food Network.  I love watching the cooking competition shows.  I don’t know why or how, since I don’t cook very well, but they’re just wildly entertaining to me.  On most of these cooking shows, the main objective for our chefs…

        Did you feel depressed after Avengers: Infinity War?  Did you feel lifeless, like your soul got ripped from your body after a simple snap?  Looking for a cure?  Well have a dose of Ant-Man and the Wasp, a lively, action-packed, wildly entertaining, hilarious, and just flat-out awesome entry in the MCU. Ant-Man and the Wasp takes place before Infinity War but after Civil War, as Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) is now under house arrest by the…

        The First Purge is about exactly what you think it’s about: the first purge ever.  The purge, of course, being a government issued law stating that for one day a year, all crime throughout America is legal.  However, it didn’t start as something that occurred all over the United States.  It started as an experiment on Staten Island, headed by Arlo Sabian (Patch Darragh) and Dr. Updale (Marisa Tomei).  The two…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a movie about what happens when stupid people are in charge of important tasks.  Almost every decision every character makes is a terrible one, one that puts either themselves or everyone around them in even more danger than they were already just in.  The result is one of the most infuriating film-going experiences I’ve had in 2018 and a new low for the Jurassic Park franchise. Fallen Kingdom picks up three years after…

      Film history has proven that sequels released more than a decade after the last film tend to not be very good.  Examples of this include Godfather III (16 years after Godfather II), Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (23 years after Wall Street), Basic Instinct 2 (14 years after Basic Instinct), and Dumb and Dumber To (20 years after Dumb and Dumber). But Pixar seems to be the exception to this rule.  With sequels like Toy Story 3 and Finding Dory, Pixar seems to have…

        Hereditary is a movie I saw back in January at the Sundance Film Festival and it is a movie that has been engrained in my mind since.  Director Ari Aster has created a modern horror classic.  It’s a tense, moody, atmospheric thriller with deep themes and beautiful craftsmanship.  It is genuinely one of the most haunting movie experiences I have ever had and the best movie that I have seen in 2018 so…