Movies
Dolittle (2020)
When I was a kid and I visited my grandma’s house, she had a lot of older hardback books from when her kids, including my mom, were younger. I’d try to read them sometimes, and I do remember a few Doctor Dolittle books. I picked one at random and didn’t Read more…
Movies
Marriage Story (2019)
I was reluctant to watch Marriage Story, and were it not for the movie’s Best Picture nomination, I probably wouldn’t have. It wouldn’t have been due to any prejudice or animosity against anyone who made it. I like both Scarlett Johansson when she’s in the right roles, and Adam Driver Read more…
Movies
Just Mercy (2019)
I noticed that trailers for both Just Mercy and Dark Waters came out around the same time. That makes sense since both are obviously aimed for awards season as prestige releases. Both are also legal dramas based on true stories of crusading lawyers working to right wrongs through legal actions Read more…
Movies
1917 (2019)
Trailers are, by definition, designed to get your butt into a theater to see a movie. They’re commercials. That’s all they are. I know this, but I am hardly immune to a good one, especially if it’s something that is more or less in my wheelhouse anyway. My point is, Read more…
New Releases
Dracula (2020)
British TV producers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss gave the world a revamped Doctor Who and the modern version of Sherlock. Given their pedigree, what could they take on next? How about Bram Stoker’s Transylvanian count? Well, that’s what we got with a modernized mini-series Dracula, now available on Netflix Read more…
Movies
Spies in Disguise (2019)
This is a bad time of year to hit the local multiplex at least once a week. January means all the stuff the studios didn’t think was remotely good comes out as it’s all they have left after releasing the good stuff for possible awards consideration. True, a number of Read more…
Movies
Uncut Gems (2019)
I’m not much of an Adam Sandler fan. I think I enjoyed some of his SNL stuff back in the day, but these days Sandler is the very picture of the lazy comedic actor. His movies all look about the same, and he rarely seems to be trying. He can, Read more…
Movies
Little Women (2019)
I can’t say that I have ever read Louise May Alcott’s Little Women, but I am somewhat familiar with the story because my ex-wife was really into all things Winona Ryder, including the 1994 movie version. I remember it mostly because at the end, after Claire Danes died, Ryder’s Jo Read more…
Movies
Bombshell (2019)
Can you make a movie about Fox News and its inner workings without making it particularly political? The new movie Bombshell seems to try as it focuses most of its energy onto various women working there and the toxic workplace they all had to deal with, most notably coming from Read more…