Greetings again from the darkness. With their first 22 feature films, Pixar excelled at balancing the eye candy and action kids favor with the second level intellect needed to simultaneously keep adults entertained. As proof, one need only think of such classics as...
Mank (Movie, Netflix) 'Citizen Kane' is considered to be the greatest film of all time by many institutions around the world and the story behind how screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz came up with this masterpiece has been floating around Hollywood for a generation....
One Night in Miami (Movie, Amazon Prime) Regina King’s directorial debut delivers an eye opening look at the black experience in America, but the unique part of this film is who’s telling the story. Malcom X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Mohammad Ali (back when he was...
Soul (Movie, Disney+) Pixar has long proven that they can find the heart in just about any story. So, it should surprise no one to see that they are taking it one step further. Yet, this film never loses any of the magic that makes Pixar movies so appealing to...
Wolfwalkers (Movie, Apple TV+) This wonderfully hand drawn piece of animation is as radiant in its colors as its villain is ravenous in execution. At a certain point, I was actually worried that my little girl shouldn’t be watching this difficult story. But I’m glad I...
The Midnight Sky (Netflix, Movie) This film is as poetic as you are going to get in big budget science fiction. It’s also a slowly sobering story and borrows heavily from other great films. Which seems to have turned many off of its heartbreaking and insightful story....
Greetings again from the darkness. It happens sometimes, but rarely. A single sequence in a film is so profound or unusual or artistic or affecting, that it alone makes the film worth watching. Such is the case with the labor-birth-midwife scene in this film from real...
Minari (Movie) This insightful look at Korean immigrants making a home for themselves in Oklahoma is just the setting of this insightful picture. However, it’s the themes of faith and the fickle nature of the American dream that hit home most fervently. Steven Yuen...
Tenet (Movie, Streaming) ‘Tenet’ is, without a doubt, the most fun I’ve had watching a movie in a very long time! Part of this is obviously because I’ve been stuck watching movies on my television and the summer movie season was ripped apart from us. A fact that may...
Palm Springs (Movie, Hulu) This film was easily one of the most pleasant surprises I watched all year. In fact, I watched it twice because I enjoyed it so much. Now, there is a fair argument to be made that these movies where people are stuck in a time loop...