Birds of Prey – 2020

Originality: The DC Extended Universe has been one of the most interesting roller coasters in the world of cinema and the latest offering adds a new twist on one of their previously established characters: Harley Quinn. Choosing to focus this film on her character and provide her with decent backstory and development helped this film […]

Balloon – 2020

Originality: To escape from East Germany into the West was the dream of most freethinking Germans and this film highlights a real-life escape attempt by a family who has sewn their own hot air balloon. This film is well-written, even if it has several flourishes for dramatic effect, but these do a good job of […]

Quarantine

For the past few months, the world has been in quarantine, and I’ve used this time to watch a number of movies. I’ve not updated this blog since it began. I’ll be posting my reviews for the 2020 films beginning this evening. Additionally, my focus of 2020 has been world cinema and I’ll be discussing […]

92nd Academy Awards

The Oscars are almost here and this is probably the most competitive one in recent memory. Almost every film nominated would easily be the best film of any other year, but so many good films came out in 2019, that the competition is stiff. Below are my predictions for who/what I think will win and […]

Top 10 Films of 2019

2019 was an uncannily good year for cinema and in any given year the lowest rungs of this list could easily be the best film of the year. Films from the likes of Tarantino and Scorsese only made my honorable mentions and a movie about Mr. Rogers barely made my top 15. This was an […]

Dolemite is My Name – 2019

Originality: Dolemite is one of the great characters of the blaxploitation era and his story has been begging to appear on the big screen for many years. This story focuses on the origins of the character as the brainchild of Rudy Ray Moore who recovered from obscurity by using some old rhymes to create an […]