Category: Reviews
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Director’s Series #1: Stanley Kubrick
Hello again, I’m back! It’s been a while since I last posted, and a lot of things have gone down in the world. I want to take a second to wish everyone the best of luck and health in these troubling times. I hope everyone is staying inside when necessary! What better way to keep…
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Horse Girl (2020): A Brief Review
Now that awards season is behind us and Parasite officially a Best Picture winner, I can get back to doing what I started this blog to do: reviewing movies. My first official review of a 2020 release is for Jeff Baena’s Horse Girl, which premiered at Sundance before finding its home on Netflix. I didn’t…
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Waves (2019): Review
Probably spoilers. Read at your own discretion. Waves lives in me now. Somewhere around the forty-minute mark, it crawled inside my veins and made a space for itself in my bloodstream. If you think I’m being hyperbolic, perhaps you’re right, but that’s what it felt like to me. In fact, there weren’t many things I…
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1917 (2019): Review
I love movies. Gosh, I love movies. Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves may have proclaimed those words, but I have co-opted this as a placeholder for what I want to say about Sam Mendes’ latest release, 1917. Of course I have more to say, but wouldn’t that be an uncharacteristically succinct review from myself? No such…
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Cats (2019) Review
There are spoilers abound in this review, so just be warned if you know nothing about the show or the movie and want to go in fresh! It’s currently December 28th and I, like a lot of film bloggers and writers, am in the midst of compiling a dizzying list of the best movies of…
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Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Review
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS EPISODE IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER BELOW! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! I have a strange relationship with the Star Wars franchise. I wasn’t alive during the original trilogy, I was very young during the prequel trilogy, and I was very much getting into film during the sequel trilogy. Despite that,…
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Marriage Story (2019): Review
As always, mild spoilers below! It’s safe to say I was very excited for this one. I’m a huge Baumbach fan, so I was highly anticipating a movie where he tackles a personal divorce story propped up by a talented cast that garnered a lot of festival acclaim. After last week’s dive into The Irishman,…
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The Irishman (2019) Review
*Warning for mild spoilers* I remember the first time I heard about The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s latest feature. I was initially excited, seeing the likes of De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci all set to star. Scorsese’s previous film, Silence, is something I consider a masterpiece, and from any other director it would be a once-in-a-lifetime…
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Pink Wall (2019): Review
*Warning for mild spoilers, but nothing too big* Sometimes the simplest of premises can create the most impactful movies. Pink Wall is very simple: a series of sequences which depict moments in a relationship across several years, highlighting the good, the bad, and the in between. Tom Cullen’s directorial debut focuses on Leon and Jenna,…
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Joker (2019): Review
“Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just…DO things.” Joker, The Dark Knight (2008) The best iteration of the Joker ever put to screen uttered those words…
When The Credits Roll 