I’ve been anticipating this movie for a long time. I loved the first Wonder Woman film and having it set in the era I grew up in just felt like a win […]
Movie Review – Wonder Woman 1984: I Was Hoping For So Much More (Some Small Spoilers)
Movie Review: For Love of the Game – Capturing the Spirit of Baseball
Written by Michael Shaara and Dana StevensDirected by Sam Raimi I’ve been a baseball fan all my life, and a diehard Mets fan all that time. There are few films about baseball […]
Movie Review – Affliction: Or, “Drunk Man Abuses Family in a Small Town”
Written by Russell Banks and Paul SchraderDirected by Paul Schrader It took me several tries to get through this film. I’d tried to watch it once, and pretty much dismissed it when […]
Movie Review: Under the Tuscan Sun – Sometimes Our Wishes Are Answered in Ways We Don’t Expect
Written by Frances Mayes and Audrey WellsDirected by Audrey Wells I generally hate movies that depict the be-all-to-end-all of a woman’s life as finding “a good man” to settle down with. It […]
Movie Review – The Manchurian Candidate (2004): The Wrong Time for a Thriller About a Presidential Race?
Written by Richard Condon, George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne, and Dean GeorgarisDirected by Jonathan Demme I hadn’t seen the original Manchurian Candidate until a few months prior to seeing the remake. A discussion […]
Movie Review – American Gun: James Coburn’s Final Film is Perhaps His Best Performance in Years
Written by Alan JacobsDirected by Alan Jacobs Don’t be fooled by the title. If you think this is a “liberal Hollywood anti-gun propaganda film”, you might be missing a touching story about […]
Movie Review: Philadelphia – Impactful Depiction of AIDS Epidemic and Legal Advocacy
Written by Ron NyswanerDirected by Jonathan Demme Although I am thrilled about the “warp speed” vaccine, y’all better thank ACT UP. The efforts that cause this type of fast track are solely […]
Movie Review: Picking up the Pieces – It Should Have Been “An Alan Smithee Film”
Written by Bill WilsonDirected by Alfonso Arau Every now and then I come across a movie that looks so absurd, I just know it has to be funny. When I read the […]
Movie Review: Fahrenheit 9/11 – We Didn’t Start the Fire…
Written by Michael MooreDirected by Michael Moore Back in 2004, I saw this film in theaters. It was quite ironic that I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 in a Loews theater, which was then […]
Movie Review: Dante’s Peak – Every 70’s Disaster Flick Cliche Crammed into Two Hours of Better Effects
Written by Leslie BohemDirected by Roger Donaldson For a while in the mid-90s, it seemed that the advent of computer-generated special effects brought on a resurrection of disaster films, with special effects […]
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