When the new year gets into full swing, that is when I usually hear about all these films I had somehow missed in the previous year. Where was I when the trailer and posters dropped for Phantom Thread? Or Call Me By Your Name? I heard about these films from generally one of two sources; reviews by critics I respect, or a friend who had heard good things/wanted to see it. The latter is how I came about I, Tonya.
Read moreThe Disaster Artist
If you do not know the cult classic, "The Room", widely considered to be one of the worst films of all time, do yourself a favor and go watch it. Not "Room", the movie that won Brie Larson her Oscar a few years ago, but "THE Room", the wonderfully bewildering brain child of Tommy Wiseau. Who is Tommy Wiseau? This is where "The Disaster Artist" comes in.
Read moreThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
It's December, which means we are in the thick of award season darlings and front-runners at the cinemas. For the uninitiated, movies that are released in the months of November and December are most likely to do well in the following year's award season, most notably the Golden Globes, various Guild and Critic awards, and, of course, the Academy Awards.
Read moreJustice League
I don't think it will be a big shock to anyone who knows me that the DCEU is definitely not one of my favourite cinematic franchises. And in this current day and age where Marvel is releasing movie after movie, already in it's third phase of stories, culminating in the epic that will be Infinity War: Parts 1 and 2, it's hard to deny that at the very least, Marvel has put out films that some would call mediocre or mundane, but I don't think anyone would say a Marvel movie (within the MCU, so excluding the X-Men films, Fantastic Four films, and pre-2017 Spider-Man films) has been straight up terrible.
Read moreThor: Ragnarok
I'm going to preface this review with an admission of guilt; I initially was not excited to see Thor: Ragnarok. Shocker, I know! I'm probably one of the biggest fans of the MCU, mostly because I read the comics growing up, but also because it's fun for me to see characters like these being taken with some form of seriousness and given a budget to tell these epic scale stories. And with Infinity War coming up next year, we're going to be seeing a lot of ramping up in the MCU for it.
Read moreBlade Runner 2049
In preparation for seeing 'Blade Runner 2049' tonight, I rewatched 'Blade Runner: The Final Cut'. I had recently purchased the 35th anniversary edition on 4K UHD + Bluray + Digital and if you couldn't tell by my Instagram page, I have a hefty movie collection. 'Blade Runner' was a movie I had seen before, but never quite understood why it had become a cult classic of film.
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