(12 movies watched, one of them twice, for a total of 13) Eighth Grade: possibly my top movie of 2018 A Star is Born: Brings back the magic, last seen in 1954 Private Life: I don’t want [...]
George Tillman Jr.’s The Hate U Give is full of love: between family members, between people, between friends. It’s also grounded by incredible performances by Amandla Stenberg as [...]
Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men is a good action movie, of the regular-people type.* For me though, it suffered from me having read the book which goes deeper into the relationships than [...]
Taika Waititi is a fabulous director of children* and his talent is on full display in Boy, the story of a Alamein, a boy living in New Zealand in 1984. Alamein tells his friends a lot of [...]
Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life is a sad and funny tale of a couple trying everything to become parents, specifically through fertility treatments. I cannot say enough about how good Kathryn [...]
I can finally exhale, because A Star is Born (2018) ignores the travesty that was the 1976 version and restores what made the 1937 and 1954 versions magical: a story of gentle love and nurturing [...]
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information Back when I discovered Gillian Jacobs, everyone always referenced her work on Community, which I [...]
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. I watched here. Cost: $1.50 via RedboxWhere watched: at home with Matt who really liked it. Would [...]