Movie Breakdown: Long Shot
Pre-Screening Stance: Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies, 50/50, The Night Before) is a super solid director, Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron are two very likeable actors, and Long Shot seemed to go over pretty well when...
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Movie Breakdown: Avengers: Endgame (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: It’s the final film in a sprawling 22-movie epic that has dominated screens and box offices for over a decade. There are no words for how excited I am. Post-Screening Ramble: I cried...
Movie Breakdown: Pet Sematary (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: The image of Rachel Creed’s spinal meningitis-afflicted sister Zelda from the original Pet Sematary has haunted my dreams since I saw the flick when I was 11. The idea that the directors of...
Movie Breakdown: Shazam!
Pre-Screening Stance: If you’re operating at a point where the DC Extended Universe just no longer cocks your pistol and thus you don’t have it in you to be jazzed about Shazam, I get it. ...
Movie Breakdown: The Highwaymen
Pre-Screening Stance: The pieces here seem right. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks) is a serviceable director, Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are good actors, and the plot sounds interesting. Too bad...
Movie Breakdown: Dumbo
Pre-Screening Stance: Disney’s live action remake train pushes on with Dumbo. I’ve never been particularly attached to the 1941 animated film, so I’m actually heading into Tim Burton’s version without any worry that it’ll “ruin”...
Movie Breakdown: Hotel Mumbai (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: Before this screener arrived at my digital door, I’d only heard of this movie because of my strange inclination to be unexcited by films starring either Dev Patel or Armie Hammer, to which...
Movie Breakdown: Gloria Bell
Pre-Screening Stance: It’s always strange to me when a director remakes his own film (Sebastian Lelio did Gloria back in 2013), but I’m in on Gloria Bell since it stars Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael...
Movie Breakdown: Captain Marvel (Noah)
Pre-Screening Stance: There is no doubt whatsoever that I am one hundred percent excited for Captain Marvel. I’ve ridden this 20-film train this far and the landscape has only gotten better and better. Am I...
Movie Breakdown: Greta
Pre-Screening Stance: Isablle Huppert as a lonely lady with attachment issues? I’m in on that. Admittedly though, I’m a little less in on Chloe Grace Moretz (she’s so very hit or miss) and director Neil...
