Academy Awards
-
Avatar: Fire And Ash Review – A Phenomenal Three-quel To One Of The Best Film Franchise’s In History!
Avatar was a film that took the world by storm back in 2009, controlling the box office and showing film aficionados a new way to watch movies. The digital style that James Cameron created specifically for this movie would change… Continue reading
-
Marty Supreme Review – Josh Safdie, Timothee Chalamet And Company Combine To Make An Intense Fast-Paced Semi-Biopic
The Safdie Brothers came on the scene of filmmaking with a storm. The Pleasure of Being Robbed, a short film, and Daddy Longlegs, a full-length feature, were their first two films, but it was their breakout hit “Good Time,” starring… Continue reading
-
If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You Review – A Scenario That Is Very Real For Half The Population Of The World I’m Sure.
I’m not a woman. And I’m not a mother. I couldn’t imagine what women who are mothers go through giving birth or trying to raise a child. All I can say is that I have a mother who gave birth… Continue reading
-
The Smashing Machine Review – A Sports Biopic That Would Be Pretty Mundane If It Weren’t For Johnson’s Phenomenal Performance As Kerr
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is an actor who has started his career out as a wrestler, as most people know by now. He had early roles in The Scorpion King, a spinoff of The Mummy Franchise, starring Brendan Fraser back… Continue reading
-
One Battle After Another Review – PTA’s Wild Ride On A Lost Highway
By Brian Susbielles Paul Thomas Anderson, along with contemporaries Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, and Kevin Smith, make up the VHS generation of directors emerging in the 1990s where they were self-taught on how to make movies and came out with… Continue reading
-
Robert Redford: In Memoriam RIP (August 18th, 1936 – September 16th), One Of The Heroes Of My Childhood
I have a Mount Rushmore of actors that I grew up with as a child. Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Redford are on that list. Jack Nicholson is next in line for me. They epitomized what it… Continue reading
-
Waltzing With Brando Review – A Film Based On A Story I Didn’t Know About With An Amazing Performance From Zane As Marlon Brando
There have been quite a few films over the years that have featured a celebrity in the title of a movie, but said film isn’t necessarily a biopic as such. Waltzing With Brando is one of those types of movies.… Continue reading
-
In Remembrance Of The Late, Great, Uncomparable Gene Hackman RIP 1930-2025
Eugene Allen Hackman, his birth name, is an actor of incomparable status during the span of his almost 60-year career. I caught on to him at an early age because of his Oscar winning performance as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in… Continue reading
-
Porcelain War Review – A Worthy Oscar Nomination For This Beautifully Filmed Ukraine Documentary
The world has been aware of the war in Ukraine ever since Russia invaded its neighbor a few years ago. If the news channels haven’t let you forget more than 20 Days in Mariupol and Navalny, the last two Academy… Continue reading
-
The Nickel Boys Review- A Filmmaker, In RaMell Ross, Who Put His Own Vision On What Would Otherwise Be A Basic Story
The Nickel Boys is based on the book of the same name by Colson Whitehead. It’s a period piece set in the 1960s. RaMell Ross doesn’t film it in the usual style most directors would, though. He uses a first-person… Continue reading
From the Fourth Row! 