Review & Reaction: The Oscars 2022!
Every year, my cynicism towards the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences grows, yet every year, as I watch the Oscar show, I feel the romanticism towards the art […]
Follow-up: 9 Years of Disney Star Wars
Has Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm improved Star Wars in the 9 years since George Lucas stepped aside? And by “stepped aside”, I of course mean “sold his company for $4 […]
HAMILTON: My 10 Favorite Songs (and other general thoughts on the best piece of entertainment I’ve watched all year)
I’ve been trying to find a way to properly review Hamilton after finally watching it when the show debuted on Disney+ back in July, but I’ve been coming up short. […]
Reaction: Ronan Farrow’s “CATCH AND KILL”
I just finished the audiobook of investigative journalist Ronan Farrow‘s brilliant non-fiction tome Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, which details how his Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
Review, Reaction, Retrospective: GAME OF THRONES Series Finale, “The Iron Throne”
Game of Thrones is over. Believe me, I’m as sick of hearing about it as you are. I mostly blame the internet for that, not the show itself. My own […]
Review: AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
Avengers: Infinity War is at once something familiar and something new. Familiar in that it’s the 19th movie in the now 10-year old interconnected Marvel Cinematic Universe, a franchise of […]
Review: CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
When it was announced that Tony Stark/Iron Man would be joining the third Captain America movie as a co-lead for the Civil War storyline, I was thrilled beyond words. Not […]
Review: STAR WARS: EPISODE VII- THE FORCE AWAKENS
Welcome back, friends. Please forgive my lack of productivity in this space through pretty much all of 2015, but I’ve had quite a bit going on out in the real […]
Review: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
Captain America: The Winter Soldier marks the unofficial start to the 2014 summer movie season (yes, I know it’s the first week of April, but that’s how Hollywood does business […]
Review: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
The Hungers Games: Catching Fire has arrived in theaters as the most anticipated studio film probably since The Avengers last year, and with Christopher Nolan‘s Batman series wrapped up, The […]
Mini-Review: LEE DANIELS’ OSCAR-BAITING THE BUTLER
First things first, as you’ll see, I refuse to call this movie Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Have you heard the story about why they had to retitle the film from […]
Mini-Review: FRUITVALE STATION
Fruitvale Station is based on the true events of December 31, 2008 and the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, 2009 involving the wrongful shooting death by an Oakland […]
Free Review of a $200 Million Turd: THE LONE RANGER
The Lone Ranger (from the team that brought you Pirates of the Caribbean, didn’t ya know?!) arrived in theaters last week to scathing reviews, low industry expectations and minuscule audience […]
Review: MAN OF STEEL
WARNING: Spoilers be comin! If you’re one of 8 people left who haven’t seen this movie, know that I discuss almost every detail of the plot at one point or […]
Mini-Review: WORLD WAR Z
Note: For once, I will try to keep this review spoiler free, as I’ll be posting it the same weekend of the film’s release. World War Z finally hits theaters […]
Review: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
Star Trek Into Darkness is my new favorite movie of 2013. It’s not the best movie of 2013 thus far (that would be Mud, a great little flick and the […]
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