Movie Breakdown: The Rhythm Section (Noah)
Pre-Screening Ramble: It’s a new venture by the producers of the Bond franchise directed by The Handmaid’s Tale’s Reed Morano. It’s got Jude Law and Blake Lively and Sterling K. Brown and looks to be...
Author: Noah Sanders
Movie Breakdown: Knives Out (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: Oh, Rian Johnson made a new film? Cool, I’ve only been waiting for this one to come out since that kid in The Last Jedi stared into the stars and I was like,...
Movie Breakdown: Uncut Gems (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: The Safdie’s Good Times with Robert Pattinson still haunts me in the best possible way. If this was a video of a man stirring old milk with his pinky finger while a child...
Movie Breakdown: Ford V Ferrari (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: Everything about this film – the period, the stars, the presence of many many fast cars hurtling around racetracks – has me excited. Which, based on my general cynicism about hope, makes me...
Movie Breakdown: The Report (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: I’m an Adam Driver superfan, an Adamista as they call us, sporting a t-shirt that reads (in extremely bold lettering) I Jive For The Drive(r). So, yeah, even a film where The Driveshaft...
Movie Breakdown: Zombieland: Double Tap (Noah)
Pre-Screening Ramble: On rewatch, Zombieland is a toneless mess hung on the scraps of a single good joke. Where I believed a more recent viewing of the film would set me in the proper state...
Movie Breakdown: Gemini Man (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: On one hand, Ang Lee is one of the great masters of cinema and everything he births into the world should be viewed on a giant screen in the holy dark of the...
Movie Breakdown: Joker (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: I have been standing to the side of the enormous swirling maelstrom of hype/anti-hype/fear-mongering craziness that this film is bobbing up and down in and quietly deciding to dislike everything about it. Post-Screening...
In Review: Fantastic Fest 2019 (Noah)
It’s been a week since I crowbarred my ass out of an Alamo Drafthouse seat, thirty-two pounds of fries and Lone Star slowly digesting in my gut and headed home to the City By The...
Fantastic Fest 2019: 5 Picks From The 3rd Wave Of Programming (Noah)
At this point in the Fantastic Fest proceedings, I have stumbled across the line of anticipation where it doesn’t truly matter what films are revealed to be playing in the various waves of programming. So...
