Director: Alan BallCast: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Lois Smith, Margo Martindale, Stephen RootScreenplay: Alan Ball95 mins. Rated R for language, some sexual references and drug use. On first look, the poster for Uncle Frank didn’t really win me over. It wasn’t until I saw the cast list and realized […]
[Early Review] Uncle Frank (2020)
Selena Quintanilla Perez is a name etched in pop culture history, known to many as the subject of the 1997 biopic starring Jennifer Lopez as much as she is known to several generations of Latinx girls. Her tragic death — murdered at the age of 23 — enhances this mythos, a fact often enhanced by…
‘Selena: The Series’ Review: Netflix’s Biopic Fails to Give Star a Voice
Dialing down the intensity and letting Colman Domingo and Zendaya do the work, “Euphoria’s” first special episode offers a rare ray of light in a dark winter.
‘Euphoria’ Review: Special Episode Lends a Helping Hand This Holiday Season
Directed by David Fincher and written by Jack Fincher, follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s tumultuous development of Orson Welles’ iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane. Starring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey, Arliss Howard, Tuppence Middleton, Monika Gossmann and Joseph Cross. This is likely not going to be the sort of film that Fincher fans […]
Season two of the Netflix series Virgin River (adapted from the book series by Robyn Carr) just dropped last week, and as of this writing, I have 2 of the 10 episodes yet to watch (and I will definitely finish them tonight). Friends, this show is dumb. But it’s also incredibly watchable. The basics: 30-something […]
TV Time: Virgin River is so dumb. So why can’t I stop watching?
It’s tough to be a woman in the workplace. So as you may be able to guess, this is about an assistant (Julia Garner). She works for a powerful executive at a film production company in New York City. She is at the bottom of the totem pole, and this is about how she processes […]
Toxic Work Environment – The Assistant (2019)
Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H. Tony Revolori as Zero Moustafa F. Murray Abraham as Mr. Moustafa Adrien Brody as Dmitri Willem Dafoe as J. G. Jopling Saoirse Ronan as Agatha Tilda Swinton as Madame D. Edward Norton as Albert Henckels Mathieu […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Review
If you’re looking for an excellent film featuring an Oscar-worthy performance from Riz Ahmed, look no further than the Sound of Metal. Directed and written by former concert photographer Darius Marder (he also wrote The Place Beyond the Pines), Sound of Metal focuses on a drummer named Ruben (Riz Ahmed) losing his hearing while on […]
Sound of Metal: An Excellent Film That Features an Award-Worthy Performance From Riz Ahmed
Queen Olivia Colman looks upon Margaret Thatcher and just doesn’t know what to make of her. Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: last spring my wife Anne and I binged the first three seasons of Netflix’s The Crown and soon caught up with the rest of fandom. One slight hitch: while Anne is a major history […]
“The Crown” Season 4: All Ten Episodes Ranked According to a Guy Who Barely Knows Royal Family Stuff
The Flight Attendant has a premise that draws you in, but will it be smooth skies or bumpy turbulence? Let’s find out…
BoJack Horseman Christmas Special: Sabrina’s Christmas Wish (2014). While this is slightly cheating with the formula I utilise for this Christmas blogging series, I felt this episode needed to be noted. Also my BoJack-mad sister suggested I review this episode. It’s a pretty standard BoJack episode but just centered around Christmas. Todd (Aaron Paul) and […]
Festive Movie Marathon 2020 (#1)
Two lighthouse keepers, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert Pattinson) try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. My sister recommended me this film and insisted I watched it when it popped up on Amazon Prime. I’d heard about how much attention this […]
“The Undoing” finale was the television event of the year so far for HBO. The premium cabler’s parent company announced the show’s Nov. 29 finale drew the biggest audience for an HBO series since July 2019. WarnerMedia stated that “The Undoing” finale garnered 3 million viewers across all platforms, which makes the show the most-watched…
HBO Touts ‘The Undoing’ as First Original Series to Grow Ratings Each Week
Thoughts – Adapted from their 2018 stage play, Director Kornél Mundruzcó and writer Kata Wéber make an excellent English language debut with Pieces of a Woman. Grade – A Releasing on Netflix in January 2021, the film focuses on the fallout of a complicated home birth that ends tragically. The majority of the press will […]
Pieces of a Woman: An Excellent Film That Explores Grief, Loss and Sadness
And I’m sure my wife, our youngest son, a neighbor, and a random jogger are as well. We just watched the finale of HBO’s wonderful whodunit, The Undoing. The Undoing Is a six-part murder mystery starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland that totally captivated our family and apparently many others around the country. […]
I’m glad I didn’t bet money on who I thought did it!
‘’Kuşa bir yuva, örümceğe bir ağ, insana dostluk.’’ William Blake’in Cennet ile Cehennemin Evliliği adlı eserinin “Cehennem Meselleri” kısmından yapılan yukarıdaki alıntı, Kelly Reichardt‘ın 70. Berlin Film Festivali’nde ana yarışmada yer alan First Cow filminin açılışında karşılıyor izleyenlerini. Reichardt’ın sinemasında nostaljik bir yolculuğa çıkan yapıt, iki dost üzerinden, yönetmenin alışıldık nahif diliyle kurduğu anlatısını; kapitalizm ve…
A year ago, I was pleasantly surprised by The Christmas Chronicles. Here was Kurt Snake Plisskin Russell as an uber cool Santa and they weren’t buying him. I didn’t think he’d make a very good Santa Claus and was wrong. So, here we are a year later and Netflix is delivering a sequel with Mrs. […]
FIRST LOOK: The Christmas Chronicles 2 – Netflix
While nobody thinks Woody Allen has another Annie Hall in him, A Rainy Day in New York is a dull and forgettable film by a director still in love with the persona he’s now too old to perform himself. Like an aging classic rocker, he seems content to pay the bills by playing the hits with a backup band who weren’t even born during his prime.
A Rainy Day in New York (2019) Movie Review By D.M. Anderson
This Boy’s Life is probably one of my top ten favorite movies. I’ve seen it several times, including again just recently. It certainly has an all-star cast, featuring Robert De Niro, a very young Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ellen Barkin. This Boy’s Life is the movie version of writer Tobias Wolff’s book of the same name, […]
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel Black Beauty, which was written from the perspective of a horse and had an animal rights message that was revelatory for its time, is one of the biggest selling books of all time and has been adapted for the screen a number of times […]