Tim Burton makes movies about outcasts. From Pee Wee Herman to Edward Scissorhands to Ed Wood to Sweeney Todd, Burton makes movies about people who stand out from the crowd because of their looks, personality, and their lifestyle. So it’s no wonder why Burton would be drawn to Dumbo, Disney’s latest live-action remake of the classic tale about a big eared elephant who learns he can fly. But what makes this version…
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Transit is a quiet thriller that will have you thinking about it long after the credits role. This isn’t a thriller in the sense of Se7en or Sicario, where it is overly dark and shocking in its violent and subject matter. No, this is a thriller that takes place during the bright, sunny days in France and looks at one man’s loneliness in the world. Transit looks at Georg (Franz Rogowski), a man who, after…
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As a mysterious family stands at the foot of the driveway of the Wilson’s summer home, Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), the father of the family, stands near the front door yelling for them to leave to no avail. He then goes inside and grabs a metal baseball bat and starts pounding the bat in the palm of his hand yelling, “If you wanna get crazy, we can get crazy!” and boy,…
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The second film for a director can be a big one, especially after they make a big splash with their debut. It could be a film that elevates a directors film career, it could be one that puts the director on the map, or it could make us question just how good a director is. For this list, we are looking at the very best directorial sophomore efforts. There were a lot of films to…
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The last time we saw the Avengers, half of them were turning into dust after Thanos snapped his fingers and eliminated half of all the living beings in the galaxy. In one of the post-credit sequences following Avengers: Infinity War, we saw Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) watch chaos and pandemonium go down around him and he immediately orders the Code Red, and proceeds to take out a communication device and…
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I haven’t done one of these lists in a while. I got caught up with Sundance in January and February was a tough month personally. But it’s back now and it is a perfect month to bring this back. March has become a pretty good month for movies over the years and this year, it’s a great one. Featuring a fun little thriller I saw last year, one of the biggest movies of the year,…
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It’s Oscar night! The one night a year where we celebrate everything that is great 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 tonights ceremony. This is a crazy year with…
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Over the past few years, the Best Actress field has been loaded with terrific performances and 2018 was no different. I could have easily expanded the 2018 field to ten nominees and I still would have snubbed a few. This year’s nominees are all incredibly strong and are all from incredibly strong films that they carry. With a nice mix of newcomers and veterans, including an actress who has never acted before battling it out…
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Of the four acting categories, Best Supporting Actor is always my favorite. This is a category that is always up in the air in terms of who is going to be nominated. Will it be a past winner? A wily veteran looking for their due? A hot up-and-coming actor making a splash? A great character actor who is moving up the ranks from “that guy” status? Every year is full of a who’s who of…
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This year’s Best Actor race is an interesting one. Four of the actors nominated in the category this year have been nominated for Oscars in previous years, including one of them winning once. The fifth nominee, and arguably the front runner at this point, is a rising star. However, I would argue that there are only two good performances in this category this year. I’m not going to say which two, but in my eyes,…
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