Welcome to the first installment of the 8s! If you’ve listened to the podcast, then you know that I am taking the year to watch films from years that end in 8. In the coming months, I will be going back and updating my 2008 lineup (the 1998 lineup was done pretty recently so it’s not
Black Panther isn’t a movie; it’s a movement. That’s a phrase I’m sure you’ve heard a lot of in the past few days and it will only continue in the ramp up to the debut of the first Black superhero solo film since Blade. It’s a movie that has a ton of pressure on it,
The phrase “I’m shook” might have been first uttered for a completely different reason, but I believe it was brought into the lexicon for a moment, and a film, such as The Cloverfield Paradox. Formerly known as God Particle, the film stars a cavalcade of stars and is under the scifi banner of the Cloverfield
It didn’t take long for 2018 to deliver a terrible movie, but here we are with Proud Mary proving to be an extreme disappointment. Proud Mary tells us the story of an assassin (Taraji P. Henson) who feels guilty about killing the father of a young boy. A year later, she finds the boy and
There’s a delicate balance in the force, between light and darkness. That eternal push and pull of the forces that causes one to go to the light side or the dark. That same push and pull exists in films, and movies can sometimes give into their worst impulses. Luckily for viewers of the newest Star
Molly’s Game, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, is the kind of slick, polished studio fare made for adults that it feels like Hollywood doesn’t make any more. The film is entertaining from frame one and in the capable hands of actors like Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba, the movie is elevated to a whole