Ten Movies that somehow never got their reels burned. Last year, you saw my list of my favorite movies of all time, and now, I want to show you some of my […]
The Worst Movies I’ve Ever Seen.
Saint Frances
An honest comedy complete with religion, abortions, babysitting, lesbianism, and choices. We meet Kelly O’Sullivan as the writer of “Saint Frances” and the actress portraying Bridget, a mid-30s woman, who finds herself […]
A Little Princess, Candyman, Kingpin, The Hudsucker Proxy, Tremors, and Donnie Brasco
Some 90s Flicks You May or May Not Remember Today, I have for you a listicle of some films from the 1990s. They would happen to feature “A Little Princess,” “Candyman,” “Kingpin,” […]
Crip Camp and Resistance video reviews
New Season, New Movies in Theater or Online The new season of CJ @ The Movies begins, COVD-19 or no COVID-19, and there are always new movies available online for streaming or […]
Crip Camp
The first beautiful documentary of the year and the decade. “Crip Camp” is a made-for-Netflix documentary that will bring tears to your eyes. It focuses on Camp Jened, just down the road […]
Resistance
Jesse Eisenberg is winning as the WWII heroic actor. In a vein of “Schindler’s List” and “Life is Beautiful,” “Resistance” is a WWII movie that’s based on the true story of how […]
Delicatessen, The City Lost Children, and Amelie
French cinema at its goofiest and dazzling level. I really passion the bizarre and wacky humor and visual world of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a French filmmaker, who provides us some of the […]
Braveheart
The film that gave Mel Gibson 2 Oscars turns 25 “Braveheart” would have its 25th anniversary showing in theaters, if not for the coronavirus closing them down, but still we should honor […]
Cotton Club, 1900, Night Moves, MacBeth, Marvin Gardens, and Miami Blues
Polanksi, De Niro, Coppola, Baldwin, Nicholson, and Hackman-all part of some past selections. A friend of mine has loaned me some of his DVDs from his collection, and given our Coronavirus nightmare […]
The Banker
Give it up for Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson as the bankers who helped changed the rules. When you see recent period movies about African-Americans breaking all the rules, like in […]
