MAJOR SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow. Proceed accordingly. You can read my spoiler-free review of the movie here: Star Wars: The Last Jedi As it turns out, Luke Skywalker didn’t bring balance to the Force. In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he nailed a revolutionary thesis to the docking bay door. In the [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of sci-fi action and violence) Released: December 15, 2017 Runtime: 152 minutes Directed by: Rian Johnson Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro, Kelly Marie Tran, Gwendoline Christie, Anthony Daniels Available to rent through Amazon [...]
After a recent trend toward Get Out among critics groups, the Chicago Film Critics Association brought it back around to early favorite Lady Bird. The debut directing feature from actress Greta Gerwig (who also wrote the screenplay, loosely inspired by her senior year in high school), Lady Bird also took Best Actress honors for Saoirse [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=IC_lnyn2R2Q On August 21, 2015, three young Americans thwarted a terrorist attack on a train headed for Paris. Clint Eastwood just directed the movie of their story, The 15:17 to Paris, and it stars those actual three men: Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone. As casting stunts go it [...]
The Atlanta Film Critics Circle recently announced their first-ever year end citations, naming Get Out Best Film. The nod furthers that movie's surging Awards Season momentum. Christopher Nolan has been surprisingly overlooked - until now. The AFCC named him Best Director for his experimental WWII epic Dunkirk. The rest of the winners look familiar to what [...]
If the history of the Screen Actors Guild nominations is any indication, the following major Oscar contenders now have no shot at winning the Academy Award for Best Picture: - Call Me By Your Name - The Shape of Water - The Post - Dunkirk And throw in The Florida Project for good measure. Why? [...]
Finally, a critics group that dares to go against the conventional tide. Okay, not so much with Get Out, a worthy choice for Best Film that's actually gaining steam with more and more critics groups. It's in the lead acting categories, where James McAvoy gets a surprise win for his spectacular turn as the metaphysical [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=121&v=o3oL9-lGNog All Marvel movies should be required to have Japanese narration with subtitles, like in this Black Panther trailer for the Japan market. The cool quotient goes up instantly. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Creed helmer Ryan Coogler, Marvel's Black Panther opens in the United States on [...]
The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle showed some brotherly love to Get Out in their first annual year-end awards. It's another Best Picture win this Awards Season for writer / director Jordan Peele's horror racism allegory, following top honors from the Washington D.C. Film Critics Association. Philly also gave Peele his first major critics group award for [...]
The critics awards keep rolling in, and now Canada's premiere group adds its list. The Toronto Film Critics Association showed a lot of love for indie efforts, with The Florida Project, Lady Bird, and Get Out each garnering two awards. The big winner was The Florida Project, which was named the year's Best Picture. Willem Dafoe also continued [...]
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