Welcome to what will hopefully be a long running series! Wayback Wednesday is something I’ve had on my mind to do for a while to both revisit classic movies as well as make my way through my ever growing, but never played Criterion collection. Blending the two enabled me to start this weekly jump into
There’s a moment early on in The Incredible Jessica James that seals the deal for your opinion on the movie. Jessica, played by Jessica Williams, is talking to the divorced mother of one of her theater kids about why her daughter can’t come to a writer’s retreat. The mother informs her about the challenges with
The Coldest City is the name of the graphic novel that is the source material for Atomic Blonde and you would be remisced to feeling the chill after leaving the theater. Atomic Blonde is a Cold War era thriller that’s more cold than thriller, despite the deliciousness of it’s two lead performances from Charlize Theron
Dunkirk, the new film by Christopher Nolan, is…an experience, to say the least. A non-linear approach to one of the most interesting situations to come about in World War II, the film employs everything possible to keep the audience in it’s thrall. Dunkirk very much reminds me of 12 Years a Slave, and not just
Can you believe that the year is already half over? Where has the time gone? Between the current administration and the web series I’m working on, I feel like I have been wading through molasses in life. Anyways, so the movie year had been kinda woeful, so doing these awards was quite a struggle but
We are living in a golden age of movies about women behaving badly getting greenly. That doesn’t mean that these films will be all that great. Case in point, the misfire that is The Little Hours, an R-rated take on The Decameron, which can settle into a groove enough to truly exploit and support it’s