After a special Q&A at an AOL Build show, I told Paul Dano: “Little Miss Sunshine” change my life. That is my all-time favorite performance from him, and he continues giving profound […]
Wildlife
Halloween (2018)
A lesson I already knew was to know the difference between Mike Myers and Michael Myers. You have to say “Michael Myers,” instead of “Mike Myers,” or else some might be confused […]
Beautiful Boy
A lost Indie I saw at a special screening over a decade ago was “The Favor,” which was about a teenage drug addict and his deceased mother’s boyfriend. I was upset by […]
Bad Times at the El Royale
You don’t always need to fully understand the premise of a mystery thriller with an all-star cast; sometimes you just have to have fun watching their characters go through with the plot, […]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Anthology movies are usually entertaining in the movies (despite the repulsive “Movie 43”), and often times, they’re craft with such bizarre and silly humor. Three years ago, I saw “Wild Tales,” a […]
The Hate U Give
I can’t recommend you watch this movie twice, because of how angry it will make you, but you should definitely see “The Hate U Give” for what it does. It once again […]
Free Solo
For obvious reasons, like fear of heights and fear of dying, I would never attempt to do solo-climbing. But watching a movie about the first man to free solo climb the El […]
Venom
For a Marvel movie to be denied an R-rating, “Venom” is a mean-spirited and noisy debacle with unlikable characters, bad special effects, pointless violence, and no plot. It ranks with some of […]
A Star is Born (2018)
You recall the recent article I wrote called “3 Stars are Born?” Those were the original versions before Bradley Cooper directed and starred in the latest version. The first movie, with Janet […]
First Man
In honor of NASA’s 60th anniversary, Universal Pictures offered advanced screenings of “First Man” a week early, and I was lucky to attend. It’s director Damien Chazelle’s adaptation of the landing on […]
