Doctor Sleep (2019)
“They come back.” At its core, Doctor Sleep takes Stephen King’s novel (which I admittedly have not read) and flips the pages into a supernatural horror story built for the […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Harriet (2019)
“Fear is your enemy. Trust in God.” Not much about Harriet was first-time news for me. She was the subject of a grade school report I wrote as a pre-teen, and my […]
Black and Blue (2019)
“Either you’re one of us or you’re one of them.” Most movies of this type – seedy, procedural, B-movie movie crime dramas – tend to start strong and continue to […]
Gemini Man (2019)
“It was like I was seeing a ghost.” Ten months into the calendar year and I’m not quite sure that I’ve had a more disappointing time at the cinema than […]
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
“Give up Pinkman.” Television series don’t get much better than Breaking Bad. It is, from start to finish, one of the very best of its kind. Few false notes can be […]
Joker (2019)
“For my whole life, I didn’t know if I really even existed.” Joker descends on clown for hire Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) painting his face in a lit makeup mirror. […]
Ad Astra (2019)
“I must accept the fact I never really knew you. Nor am I you.” It’s rather remarkable that, in a time littered with small budget dramas and endless high-top tent […]
Hustlers (2019)
“We can’t dance forever.” With exceptions few and far between, the American Dream’s heyday hopes of a life lived in suburbia with a white-picket fence have radically changed this side […]
Late Night (2019)
“Be careful of showing who you are.” For a largely light-hearted workplace comedy that’s determined to fight back against the longstanding male control of evening talk show hosts, Late Night […]
Light of My Life (2019)
“Would you like me to tell you a story?” Just because Light of My Life rarely goes out of its way to convey a broad, sweeping story doesn’t mean that the […]
