The Aviator
In this new movie from Martin Scorsese (THE KING OF COMEDY), Scorsese’s young companion Leonardo Dicaprio plays an aviator. I was surprised to find that it was not just any aviator he was playing, it...
View ArticleHanna
Hanna (Saoirse Ronan from ATONEMENT and THE LOVELY BONES) is a young girl raised by a single dad (Eric CHOPPER Bana). She grew up away from the city and was home schooled, so she’s different from other...
View ArticleCarol
CAROL is a story of love – long, drawn out, dangerous, afraid-to-say-anything love. Young Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake), working as a shopgirl, seems practically...
View ArticleIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (revisit)
or OUTLAW VERN AND THE ENJOYMENT OF THE FORBIDDEN SEQUEL “What exactly am I being accused of besides surviving a nuclear blast?” INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL is the one movie in...
View ArticleThor: Ragnarok
Recently some friends and I were choosing favorites between Marvel’s three Chrises. It’s a tough call because Evans (the Captain America one) has the best Marvel series in my opinion, plus he seems...
View ArticleOcean’s 8
Before seing INCREDIBLES 2 and JURASSIC’S 5 I wanted to catch up with OCEAN’S 8. It’s that all star ensemble heist movie that came out in theaters a month ago. I know whatever conversation there was...
View ArticleThe Gift (2000)
The year was 2000. For the the third year in a row, Sam Raimi released a “this is the more serious Sam Raimi” type of movie. Though it combines a thriller story with southern gothic atmosphere and...
View ArticleNightmare Alley (2021)
“Folks here, they don’t make no never mind who you are or what you done.” The first shot in Guillermo Del Toro’s Depression-era noir movie NIGHTMARE ALLEY is of Bradley Cooper dragging a wrapped-up...
View ArticlePinocchio (2022) (the Guillermo del Toro one)
Well, would you look at that? Guillermo del Toro (BLADE II) finally finished his stop motion version of Pinocchio! Looks like it was first announced 15 years ago. Like with his Frankenstein and his In...
View ArticleTár
VÉRN ON TÁR By now if you’re the type of person who would see TÁR but hasn’t seen TÁR you’ve probly already heard that TÁR is good and you don’t need me to sell you on it. It is indeed a great acting...
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