Christopher Nolan has established himself as one of the most exciting and innovative directors working today. His movies are event movies: when he has a new movie coming out, everyone gets excited. What sort of tricks will Nolan pull this time? How will he blow our minds this time? Nolan has dabbled in several genres, from superhero to sci-fi to war, and every time he has delivered something fascinating. And we all know the makings…
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The final chapter in the Planet of the Apes prequel trilogy is a perfect ending to one of cinema’s greatest trilogies. War for the Planet of the Apes ranks with Return of the Jedi (1983) and Toy Story 3 (2010) as the greatest finale to a trilogy I have ever seen. This is a bold, epic, beautifully shot movie and one of the best movies of 2017. War takes place two years after the events of Dawn of the…
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Wish Upon is about a teenage girl named Clare (Joey King) who receives an ancient box that will magically grant her seven wishes. However, with each wish, somebody close to her dies, which causes Clare into a downward spiral or paranoia, greed, and stupidity. I am not going to break this movie down like I usually do in my reviews. Instead, I am going list seven wishes that I wish for this movie. These…
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Over the last few weeks, I have been focusing on watching film series. Whether it’s a trilogy or a six-film saga, I’m trying to run through different series a day. I have watched a number of great trilogies, some for the first time and some were long-needed rewatches. It is because of this that I needed to update my picks for the greatest movie trilogies ever. This was a tough, tough list to make, but…
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June is officially over, which means we are halfway through the 2017 cinematic year. I have seen 93 movies so far this year, just short of my goal of 100 for the first half (my goal is 200 for the whole year). I’ve seen some great films, and some not so great films, but overall, 2017 is shaping out to be a great year for movies. Here are my picks for the best movies of 2017…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is a testament to Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios. Over the last fifteen years, when Sam Raimi debuted his original Spider-Man (2002), we have seen five Spider-Man films, which included one trilogy, one incomplete trilogy, and two different Spider-Man’s (Spider-Men?) in Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. With Spider-Man: Homecoming, we get our third version of Spider-Man, with a new actor in the red and blue spandex, new villains, and a new story. But, instead of…
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The first Spider-Man film bursted into cinemas in the summer of 2002 and was immediately a cultural phenomenon. It is now 2019 and we are on our eighth Spider-Man film, Spider-Man: Far From Home. Is it a bit much? Maybe. If you think about it, we have nine Batman theatrical films and the first Batman film debuted in 1966. But I digress. In honor of Far From Home, here is my ranking of all the Spider-Man movies. …
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Happy Fourth of July, folks! In honor of our great nation’s birthday, I am going to countdown the best movies that make us scream, “America, Fuck yeah!”. These aren’t the best movies about America or the best movies about great moments in American history. No, these are the movies that are the equivalent to the explosive fireworks we watch on this day. These are the movies that you watch while eating a gluttonous amount of…
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Gru and the minions are back in Despicable Me 3, a movie that if I were seven years old would probably land at the top spot of Best Movie of 2017. But I’m not seven, I’m almost 30, and Despicable Me 3 is landing nowhere near the top of my Best of 2017 list. It isn’t going to land near the bottom either, however. In fact, I genuinely enjoyed this movie for the most part….
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Netflix has a lot of original content coming out this month, along with some Oscar hits and a Star Wars flick. Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix in July. You can see the full list of movies and shows coming to Netflix in July right here. 5 – PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002) Adam Sandler has become a cinematic joke as of late. Since around 2010 until now,…
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