Just Mercy (2019)
“There’s always something that we can do.” After reading social justice warrior Bryan Stevenson’s account defending the wrongly accused in his book of the same name, I have to say […]
Category Archives: Drama
Underwater (2020)
“You lose your sense of time in the dark.” Practically lifeless, lit by the despair of isolating desolation, and set in the deepest trenches of Earth’s most terrifying and unexplored […]
Honey Boy (2019)
“So where do we start?” Steeped in sadness with a few packets of sugary love spooned in for good measure, Honey Boy is a therapy session that takes place inside […]
Bombshell (2019)
“News is like a ship. You take your hands off the wheel and it pulls hard to the left.” Bombshell is a precise film. The blocking has been staunchly rehearsed, […]
The Irishman (2019)
“You don’t keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something.” As an uneven, idle drive down a hitman’s memory lane, The Irishman […]
Uncut Gems (2019)
“Made a crazy risk – a gamble – and it’s about to pay off.” Few films from 2019 had a more meaningful or memorable opening sequence than the anxiety inducing […]
Richard Jewell (2019)
“People believe in the badge.” Richard Jewell is, on the surface, a worthy true life telling about a lowly and ill-regarded man desperate to help all those near him with […]
Cats (2019)
“Oh no, look what the cat dragged in.” Cats is the kind of film that honestly makes me curious as to what mass audiences 10 years from now will make […]
Waves (2019)
“He’s just a human being.” As a modern, more secular approach to the dos and the dont’s listed in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, a common piece of scripture spoken at religious […]
Knives Out (2019)
“I suspect foul play.” Inside this sprawling, mischievous, hilariously macabre murder mystery is a film that’s so unafraid to sprinkle in a few necessary dashes of the socioeconomic disparity prevalent […]
