One of the truly great "little movies that could", this movie still resonates with the same charm and energy as it did when a girl first made me watch it back in college.
The joke was on her though- I loved this movie then, and I still love it now.
The backstory and financial success of this movie has been well documented, but it raked in over $368 million on just a $5 million dollar budget despite never hitting #1…
Recent movies like Argylle and The Lost City seem to be borrowing (stealing) this story idea wherein a female author finds herself wrapped up in an adventure not unlike the ones portrayed in her books.
I don't want to say this is the "original" movie like that, as this may have been a thing before the late screenwriter Diane Thomas (who unfortunately passed away in a car accident shortly after this film was released) put ink to paper, but it…
It's not easy to set aside 4 hours to go to see a movie, but I was more than a bit surprised that I was the only person in the theater for a Wednesday night viewing of this on 1/9/25.
Really though, that had more to do with the raging wildfires just miles away from where I saw this in Culver City, CA than anything, and feeling isolated against the burning of thousands of acres of lush Palisades homes might…
I don't think I really have anything to add to the positive discourse around this movie, and I was admittedly late to see it and late to log this among my friends and those I follow on here, but I had time to mull over what I don't dig about this biopic of a sliver of years from the life of musician Bob Dylan, and maybe that's at least worth logging here.
As for the positive, yes, Timothee Chalamet is…
While I would still say I'm a pretty big Robert Eggers fan, I was so-so on The Lighthouse and not really a fan of The Northman. The VVitch stands as one of my favorite horror movies and a lot of that has to do with the creeping atmosphere and dread that permeates the film, and we thankfully get a lot of that here in Nosferatu, the latest from Eggers.
There are a few spots in this where I think some…
Sometimes you just gotta watch a good legal thriller, and while we're past the heyday of John Grisham (or Grisham-like) books landing a couple of successful and solid films at the box office (The Firm, The Juror, The Rainmaker, etc), I think a good courtroom story can still check off all the marks for a satisfyingly tense drama.
This famously got screwed by Warner Bros. and didn't get much of a theatrical release, and it was one that I nearly…
A sequel to the 2000 film Gladiator is something that had kicked around Hollywood development hell for a couple of decades, with possibly the weirdest development being a screenplay penned by musician Nick Cave in which Maximus (Russell Crowe) is battling monsters in the afterlife. So when it was finally announced that director Ridley Scott would be directing a realistic follow-up, there was some degree of excitement but also some trepidation for a gap sequel to a now out-of-style swords…
I really wanted to see this again through the lens of the recent political turmoil in the United States and I have to say I enjoyed it more than I did the first time around.
The heavy-handed quality that put me off this years ago seemed pretty on-point here given current events, with seething old white men jockeying for power by manipulating the media, and while this certainly hit home in 2020-1 with the plotline of a plague being miraculously…
While it's likely that this marks the final chapter in Sony's Spider-Man Villain cinematic universe, I have to admit that once we got past the overly long and overly "explainy" backstory section (running over 30 minutes!) that is basically just a long flashback and has another actor playing the younger versions of Kraven and his brother, this sort of won me over.
It's a mess, there's no debating that. And even aside from the long flashback setup, there are loads…
China O'Brien 2 apparently shot at the same time as its predecessor, so there isn't really a lot new here in terms of the setting or the main players, and in the end it hashes out to be about as good as the first movie.
China (Cynthia Rothrock) has taken over as sheriff for her late father in her small hometown, and things seem pretty stable here with her boyfriend Matt (Richard Norton) and the vigilante-turned-deputy Dakota (Keith Cooke). That…