Movie Breakdown: Hillbilly Elegy
Pre-Screening Stance: Hillbilly Elegy has all the right parts – it’s based off a best selling memoir, Ron Howard is a competent director, and the cast includes Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto...
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Movie Breakdown: Monsoon (Noah)
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...
Movie Breakdown: Freaky (Noah)
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...
Movie Breakdown: The Life Ahead
Pre-Screening Stance: The Life Ahead looks heavy, but I’m anxious to see it because of Sophia Loren. Her performance is being hailed as Oscar-worthy, which would be wild since the last nomination she got was...
Movie Breakdown: Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Pre-Screening Stance: Considering that I’ve already put up Christmas lights around my house, yeah, I’m ready for a movie like Jingle Jangle. Here’s to the holidays, folks. Post-Screening Ramble: I really wanted to like Jingle...
Movie Breakdown: Let Him Go (Noah)
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...
Movie Breakdown: Let Him Go
Pre-Screening Stance: The trailer for Let Him Go makes the movie look like it might be a Taken-esque type affair for both Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. I can get behind that. Post-Screening Ramble: Let...
Movie Breakdown: Mortal (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: Well on one side, Andre Ovredal is a fantastic director of scary, scary things. On the other, Nat Wolff is one of those actors that steps into the frame and I shake my...
Movie Breakdown: Mortal
Pre-Screening Stance: I’m not particularly familiar with the cast of Mortal, but I’m excited to check it out because it’s directed by Andre Ovredal, who did Trollhunter, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe and Scary Stories...
In Review: Austin Film Fest 2020
I didn’t initially have plans to cover this year’s virtual Austin Film Fest, but at the last minute I reached out (and got approved) for a press pass. In total, I was able to see...
