Christopher Robin is a sweet movie and its concept is an adorable one: a grown-up Christopher Robin has lost sight of what’s important in life, but is revisited by his childhood pal, Winnie the Pooh, and given a new outlook.  Good-natured and well intentioned, the film should have been an emotionally moving powerhouse about the […]

It’s appropriate that this completely self-serving and subjective list of my favorite movies be a starting point for this website. Lists say a lot about a person. What this list says about me, exactly, I will leave to the judgment of all two of the site’s readers (pardon me for getting optimistic).   All I’ll say […]

Sorry to Bother You is amongst the most daring, original, and biting American social satires produced in recent or long-term memory. It makes last year’s excellent racial satire/thriller, Get Out, seem downright simple in comparison. Reality television, the trappings of hidden modern-day slavery in the workplace, the lack of racial identify that results from succumbing […]

Distorted had promise. The idea of Christina Ricci and John Cusack pairing for a psychological thriller about twisted perspectives of reality is, indeed, an intriguing one. The intrigue is also supported by its premise: Lauren (Ricci), a young woman mourning the loss of her infant daughter while struggling with bipolar depression, moves into an upscale […]

The secret to enjoying a movie like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is to have no expectations of it.  Considering it’s the sequel to a reboot/continuation of a trilogy that started in the nineties, that’s not too hard of a task. What should be worn out and dull by now is surprisingly engaging, however.  Fallen Kingdom […]

In spite of all the films released in 2017, the year will most likely go down in movie history as the year of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Not that there weren’t plenty of great movies being made (there were actually quite a few of them), it’s just that nobody seemed talk about them quite […]

2013 brought on an endless supply of great movies from (then-) emerging or already-established filmmaking giants. It is the most recent year for American movies that brings about the most hope for their future. This is both encouraging and mildly disheartening, considering that the years since have only contained a few sporadic masterworks each, and […]

When Tony Scott prematurely passed away at the age of 68 on August 19, 2012, the hole left in his fans’ and collaborators’ hearts was best expressed by a tweet Ron Howard posted on the same day: “No more Tony Scott movies. Tragic day.”   Many other filmmakers and actors who had worked with or been […]

LaserDiscs. What are they? Where did they come from? Why did they ever exist in the first place? You’re probably asking yourself these questions right now… Actually, you’re probably not. You’re probably not thinking anything about LaserDiscs at all. In fact, you probably aren’t even reading this because the word “LaserDisc” is in the title. […]

Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem is, essentially, a “best of” compilation of his entire career. The 2014 film is yet another Gilliam ode to escaping the hell of reality through self-induced insanity, another piece of the mad, hallucinatory world he’s developed through films such as Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. […]