Tagged: movie breakdown

Movie Breakdown: Ready Or Not

Pre-Screening Stance: Ready Or Not is either going to be really fun or a total waste of time.  Side note, before you read my review I want to make sure you’re aware that it’s Samara...

Movie Breakdown: Good Boys

Pre-Screening Stance: Generally, when kids curse or do terrible things, it’s pretty funny, so that seems like reason enough to be down for Good Boys. Post-Screening Ramble: There’s a scene in Good Boys where the...

Movie Breakdown: The Kitchen

Pre-Screening Stance: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss star in The Kitchen, a comic book adaptation that’s also the directorial debut from Andrea Berloff (the co-writer of Straight Outta Compton).  What an oddball combo...

Movie Breakdown: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Pre-Screening Stance: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is the ninth film from Quentin Tarantino.  I’m in.  You’re in.  Everyone is in. Post-Screening Ramble: It took me a couple of years to re-watch Tarantino’s last...

Movie Breakdown: The Farewell (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: It’s A24. That’s all I need to know. Post-Screening Ramble: The Farewell is a very basic family dramedy, tightly wrapped in the disguise of an art-house film. Lulu Wang’s latest follows Billi (Awkafina...

Movie Breakdown: The Farewell

Pre-Screening Stance: I’ve never really understood the whole Awkwafina thing, but The Farewell looks pretty good, so I’m willing to give her another shot.  Maybe it’ll make me stop cringing whenever I see her name...

Movie Breakdown: The Lion King

Pre-Screening Stance: I really enjoyed Jon Favreau’s version of The Jungle Book, so I definitely have faith that he can pull off a live action adaptation of The Lion King.  With that being said, 2019...

Movie Breakdown: The Art Of Self Defense (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: Trailers for The Art of Self Defense paint it as the type of relatively low-budget indie we just don’t see anymore. It looks sparse and artsy and a perfect vehicle for the recently...