There are a lot of movies that will outrage you this holiday season, and Richard Jewell is right up there. Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort is based on the true story of the bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta that killed two people and injured more than one hundred. Richard Jewell was a security…
WOW. That was pretty much all I could say after the screening of Uncut Gems. The Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems is the kind of movie you either love or hate — and, really, I should have hated it. It’s ugly, it’s violent, it’s misogynistic, it’s filled with non-stop profanity. But Michael and I left the…
Knives Out just may be the most fun movie of the year – which is an odd thing to say about a murder mystery. When popular writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead in his study the morning after his 85th birthday, it looks like a suicide except who really slits their own throat?…
Before watching The Irishman, I would have said Martin Scorsese never needed to make another gangster movie again. I mean, how many Mob guys killing each other does anyone need to see? And yet, The Irishman is on my list of best movies of the year.
Why, oh, why couldn’t The Good Liar live up to its amazing stars? How can a feature length film starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen not be as good as the episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in which the brilliant actors act out the President’s Ukraine call?
