Pre-Screening Stance: Tessa Thompson starring in a film about relationships and jazz in the mid-century America sounds wonderful. Post-Screening Ramble: A lot of people argue that there really is only 16 stories for a film....
Pre-Screening Stance: During his heyday, Paul Greengrass was a director I gave Top 5 status too. Those days are gone, but I’m still excited to see him behind the wheel on this Tom Hanks’ Western....
Pre-Screening Stance: August Wilson is an American master and his Pittsburgh Cycle is one of great feats of modern playwriting. Adaptations of plays can often times lounge in the static area of visual filmmaking but...
Pre-Screening Stance: The trailer from this movie is seemingly a sentient time traveling creature that has beamed itself from the late 1980s, consumed a handful of modern actors and then situated itself in the hearts...
Pre-Screening Stance: Everything about this flick – the setting (late 70s small-town America), the cast (Rachel Brosnahan), the look (mooooody) – makes me excited. I’m excited. Post-Screening Ramble: In just about every gangster movie we...
Pre-Screening Stance: As someone who has never been able to get past the second season of Six Feet Under and has never been able to get past the second episode of True Blood, a full...
Pre-Screening Stance: At this point anything that features Riz Ahmed is pretty much a must-see. Post-Screening Ramble: Before I ever saw a trailer for this film or a one-sheet or anything, I had pretty much...
Pre-Screening Stance: The trailers for this film make it look very ethereal and very pretty and possibly very boring. Post-Screening Ramble: Hong Khaou’s Monsoon is one of those indie films where everything is supposed to...
Pre-Screening Stance: Because, as I’ve been told, I an a codger of a human who does not enjoy fun, I did not like director Christopher Landon’s previous two films – the Happy Deathday series. Though...
Pre-Screening Stance: Aside from the most generic of titles (I have in the course of titling this review written: Let It Go, Let Him In, Let The Right One In, Let It Be, etc.) and...
