Do not watch “The Rental”, even though Alison Brie is in it

While it is tempting to watch "The Rental" simply because Alison Brie is in it, I can promise you that it is not worth the time.

Why “The Harder They Fall” not winning an Oscar is a damn shame

Idris Elba and Jonathon Majors star in a fantastic, true-to-genre western full of dramatic one-liners, unforgettable outlaws and a whole lot of gunfire.

Why “My Cousin Vinny” is the best courtroom drama ever filmed

I really liked this movie. Joe Pesci is a fucking treasure, Marissa Tomei is a downright powerhouse, and director Jonathan Lynn demonstrated a mastery of visual comedy combined with quick, witty script comedy while still respecting the serious tone of the matter and delivery a legitimate film.

“The Sum of All Fears” is what it would look like if Batman fought Putin

The Sum of All Fears features man with two first names, Jack Ryan, and is about rising tensions between Russia and the USA. The Sum of All Fears is to the current political state of affairs as Contagion was to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

What makes “Bajirao Mastani” one of the best Bollywood films I’ve seen

The film Bajirao Mastani is a beautiful, gilded romantic expression of Indian art, architecture, clothing, music, poetry and values. If you're not familiar with Bollywood, this is a fantastic but aesthetic look at one of the best films to come out of India in a long, long time.

Hailee Steinfeld’s “The Edge of Seventeen” was the best, most forgettable coming of age movie I’ve ever seen

Hailee Steinfeld's The Edge of Seventeen was pretty good, and offers a fantastic example of Steinfeld's range, something that Hawkeye was unable to deliver.

The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada is a fantastic example of telling engaging stories by building your characters through arcs, choices and changes. It’s a wonderful example of using very basic structures of action and consequence to help the audience connect to and grow with the protagonist.

The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl is a wonderful, thought provoking, uncomfortably intimate story of one Lili Elbe, and her discovery, acceptance and transition from being born a biological male, to being the woman that Lili was always meant to be. I highly recommend the film.

His House

The concept of this film is well timed and unique, paired with a classic horror trope. The movie began strong, reaffirming all of my prior assumptions, but began veering off course fairly quickly. The horrors never stopped, but the more we learned of the characters’ traumas and their following troubles, the less I started to… care.

Bird Box

Bird Box wasn’t scary, intense, fresh or even entertaining. I was thoroughly underwhelmed and unimpressed by pretty much every element of the movie. The memes are funny, though.