“Hotel Artemis” is a crime film that offers some good ideas, but never seems to deliver. This is one of those “Who Cares” type movies, where you love the designs, but you […]
Hotel Artemis
First Reformed
For the first time since “Boyhood,” I have found an Ethan Hawke performance so mesmerizing, so profound, so memorable, and so bold, it has to be seen to be believed. “First Reformed” […]
Beirut
Written by Tony Gilroy of “Bourne” fame, “Beirut” is not a masterpiece that I would see again and again. My problem with the movie is how convoluted the story gets, and how […]
You Were Never Really Here
Let’s take a break from the whole Ad game a bit, and check out “Your Were Never Really Here,” a bold, thrilling, and visionary drama about a hitman with a troubled past, […]
A Quiet Place
There’s a certain type of movie-goers I’d like to define, based on box office results, and that type is what I always call: Horror Moths. Mostly for jump scares (the ones I’ve […]
Gemini
What you want out of a good murder mystery is the key elements you need to help solve it-the characters, the items, and the explanation of their whereabouts at the time of […]
Unsane
I just found out that director Steven Soderbergh shot “Unsane” with the iPhone 7. Look at the quality and tone the iPhone has given to the movie, especially with its 4K app. […]
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 mystery thriller “Vertigo” has it all-fears, romance, lies, twists, obsession, and temptations. I’ve watched it for the first time, as part of its 60th Anniversary, and I was amazed […]
Thoroughbreds
“Thoroughbreds,” the directorial debut of Cory Finley, is noteworthy as Anton Yelchin’s last film. For those of you who don’t know him, his credits include the JJ Abrams “Star Trek” movies, “Alpha […]
Red Sparrow
“Red Sparrow,” the next collaboration of Jennifer Lawrence and director Francis Lawrence, is one I’d like to call: “Fifty Shades” during the Cold War. Meaning: there are Russian operatives who must seduce […]
