Colossal (2017)
“Would you like something to drink?” Addiction is a beast that constantly lurches around the corners of the mind, purposefully short-circuiting the mainframe and malfunctioning unless it gets its way, similar […]
“Would you like something to drink?” Addiction is a beast that constantly lurches around the corners of the mind, purposefully short-circuiting the mainframe and malfunctioning unless it gets its way, similar […]
“She doesn’t know how to be a kid.” Gifted is a tiny movie about a lot of big things: finding balance in life, the rigors of parenting, differing from the crowd, […]
“A shootout never has a happy ending.” Blake Snyder’s popular book Save the Cat should be administered like a vaccine to every film student and to all movie geeks. It’s a 15 […]
“But what happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic that you just change?” What painful, earth-shattering ramifications are born from the loss of a loved one? And in the essential […]
“He knows it doesn’t matter what’s under the hood. The only thing that matters is who’s behind the wheel.” What better way to follow-up Furious 7’s side-splitting case of cinematic appendicitis than […]
“My parents always said that I have an overactive imagination.” The Boss Baby comes to us as unexpectedly as one of those tabloid headlines about a woman who thought she had months […]
“People always want to run when they don’t know what’s coming.” It’s easy to glance at a poster and a title like The Zookeeper’s Wife – originally from the “inspired by a […]
“She’s no longer a viable asset.” Whether it be a person, a film, a book, or a business, names bring personal and irrelevant associations. My favorites are those that plainly […]
“Reality and fantasy are mutually exclusive.” The Discovery poses an utterly fascinating question to its audience: What would you do if you knew an afterlife existed? In this bleak and dreary […]
“I’d rather crash and die than talk to you.” Although there’s only slightly more good than there is bad to be found in all of CHIPS, audiences need to admire its dogged dedication […]