Category: Film

Movie Breakdown: Nobody

Pre-Screening Stance: lya Naishuller knows how to direct an action movie (see: Hardcore Henry) and Bob Odenkirk is always entertaining, so I’m all kinds of jazzed for Nobody. Post-Screening Ramble: It’s pretty much impossible to...

Movie Breakdown: The Courier (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: I like a good British period spy flick. They’re glacially paced, everything happens just below the surface and the proceedings are always just within the spectrum of politeness. The Courier seems to fit...

Movie Breakdown: The Truffle Hunters (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: People love this movie. I love documentaries. I imagine I will also love this movie. Post-Screening Ramble: The Truffle Hunters is a testament to the power of a documentary. The film follows a...

Movie Breakdown: The Courier

Pre-Screening Stance: I’m not at all familiar with director Dominic Cooke, but I like Benedict Cumberbatch and some of the other cast members in The Courier, such as Jessie Buckley and Rachel Brosnahan. Also, Greville...

Movie Breakdown: City Of Lies

Pre-Screening Stance: City Of Lies started shooting in 2016 and was supposed to hit theaters in 2018, but a lawsuit involving Johnny Depp and the film’s location manager resulted in it being tossed on a...

Movie Breakdown: Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Pre-Screening Stance: Well, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is finally here. I was surprised when the internet complained enough to convince WB to give Snyder $70 million to do what he wasn’t able to all those...

Movie Breakdown: Kid 90 (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: I guess Soleil Moon Frye directed a documentary about being a kid actor in the ’90s. Aside from harboring a sizable crush on Moon Frye as a kid, I couldn’t tell you a...

Movie Breakdown: Come True

Pre-Screening Stance: Come True is the latest entry into the IFC Midnight lineup. I missed writer/director Anthony Scott Burns’ last effort, 2018’s Our House, but I heard good things about it and I’m looking forward...

Movie Breakdown: The Father (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: I can’t say that I’ve dreamed about the day when Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins would share the screen together. But now that they are, I mean, it is pretty dreamy. Post-Screening Ramble:...