So confession time: I have had an incredibly busy year, and wasn’t able to see as many movies as I would have liked. I missed some of the high profile films like A Star is Born, If Beale Street Could Talk, Vice, Green Book, First Man, etc., and I plan on seeing Mary Poppins Returns … Continue reading Best Movies of 2018: Jacob Johnson’s List
Nathan and I rarely disagree about film. This post though is probably the most fitting for the name of our blog. Fair warning: Nathan has seen a lot more films than me this year. And I also have not seen If Beale Street Could Talk (fingers crossed we can soon!). That is probably about the … Continue reading The Best Movies of 2018: Alex’s List
It's time for that post I look forward to with both dread and excitement every year. I'm excited because I get to talk about some films I really loved, but I always dread making this list because I know there are movies I really liked that are going to get left off because there just … Continue reading The Best Movies of 2018: Nate’s List
Director Adam McKay (The Big Short) must be a huge fan of the political cartoons that appear in the opinion pages of newspapers, because his latest film, though very much live-action, has the tone of an extended, two-hour political cartoon. That approach to covering six decades in the life of Dick Cheney works great as entertainment … Continue reading “Vice” review by Nate Blake
Nate: Last night we finally got to see one of the most anticipated films of the year. There were some big questions on our mind as we sat in our reclining loungers and waited for all the horrible trailers to end so we could see what we came for. Two hours later, we had our … Continue reading “Mary Poppins Returns” review by Nate and Alex Blake
2018 has been a great year. I made Nate my bitch for life. We traveled. And we saw some really disappointing films. Here are my eight most disappointing films of 2018, in no particular order. 1.) Private Life: This Netflix original starring Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn was nothing short of disappointing. I knew nothing … Continue reading The Most Disappointing Films of 2018 by Alex Blake
Directed and Written by: Alfonso Cuarón Rated: R (Graphic nudity, language and disturbing images) Length: 135 Minutes Distributor: Netflix Nate: Each December, as the final Oscar hopefuls hit theaters, I start to feel a little depressed about the months ahead. January has a reputation for being the month where studios release titles they were too … Continue reading “Roma” review by Alex and Nate Blake
Directed by: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman Length: 117 Minutes Rated: PG Spider-Man has always been my favorite superhero, but it’s been a depressing 11 years as far as Sony’s rights to the franchise have been concerned. Though the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man was respectable and Spider-Man 2 in my opinion is still … Continue reading “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” review by Nate Blake
Since I’m not a professional critic and I blog about film in my spare time, I don’t get to see as many movies as Peter Travers or Ann Hornaday do. By the time 2018 is over, I’ll have seen somewhere between 50-60 films. Because I do this in my spare time I get to be … Continue reading The Most Disappointing Films of 2018 by Nate Blake
Green Book is directed and co-written by Peter Farrelly, one of the two brothers behind such fare as Me, Myself & Irene and Dumb and Dumber. Don’t let the many glowing reviews that speak of a new direction for Mr. Farrelly fool you. His resume is splattered all over this film. The relationship at the … Continue reading “Green Book” review by Nate Blake
