Movie Breakdown: News Of The World
Pre-Screening Stance: Director Paul Greengrass hasn’t made a good movie since 2013’s Captain Phillips, which also happened to star Tom Hanks. This gives me some faith in News Of The World. Also, I’m intrigued by...
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Movie Breakdown: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Noah)
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...
Movie Breakdown: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Pre-Screening Stance: A Denzel Washington-produced adaptation of an August Wilson play that stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman (in his final on-screen appearance)? Yeah, that’s more than enough to get me excited about Ma Rainey’s...
Movie Breakdown: The Prom
Pre-Screening Stance: I have to admit that my level of excitement for The Prom isn’t particularly high. The Ryan Murphy (Glee) musical very much looks like something that has a good chance of being wildly...
Movie Breakdown: Wild Mountain Thyme (Noah)
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...
Movie Breakdown: Wild Mountain Thyme
Pre-Screening Stance: Wild Mountain Thyme looks – for lack of a better word – sweet. I could use some of that here as this bizarro year winds down. Speaking of bizarro, John Patrick Shanley has...
Movie Breakdown: I’m Your Woman (Noah)
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...
Movie Breakdown: I’m Your Woman
Pre-Screening Stance: I love a good crime drama, and I’m Your Woman looks like it should be one. Furthermore, Julia Hart (Fast Color, Miss Stevens) is a talented writer/director that everyone needs to be in...
Movie Breakdown: Uncle Frank (Noah)
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...
Movie Breakdown: Sound Of Metal (Noah)
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...
