The Cotton Club Encore Directed by Francis Ford CoppolaWritten by William Kennedy and Francis Ford Coppola The review: I’ve not seen the original, but this encore version has a not-interesting [...]
Bad Times at the El Royale Directed by Drew GoddardWritten by Drew Goddard The review: I’m a sucker for stylish set design and once I saw the state line dividing the El Royale into California and [...]
Blindspotting Directed by Carlos López EstradaWritten by Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs The review: Friendship is at the heart of this film; a friendship that makes two people better and worse.* [...]
The Lovebirds Directed by: Michael Showalter Written by: Aaron Abram, Brendan Gall The review: The Lovebirds pairs Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani in a hilarious movie that pushes all the comedic [...]
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight features and masterful performance by Heath Ledger and is a nihilistic movie I despise.* While every actor involved is excellent** I do not think that plot [...]
The review: Christopher Nolan’s 2002 remake of 1997’s Insomnia (also called Insomnia) is a slow thriller* where the point is not really who done it,** but how this is all going to play [...]
The review: In Monster, Patty Jenkins directs Charlize Theron to an Oscar-winning performance, but also provides a nuanced portrait of a serial killer. Aside from Theron’s full command of the [...]
The review: Christopher Nolan’s Following is embryonic Nolan,* and is a good showcase of what we put up with in the 90s when it came to independent films.** I always enjoy a shifting [...]