1917 Directed by: Sam Mendes Produced by: Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Callum McDougall, Brian Oliver, Written by: Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns Starring: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch It’s a bit jarring to realize that the last veteran of The Great War …
Parasite Directed by Bong Joon-ho Produced by Kwak Sin-ae, Moon Yang-kwon, Bong Joon-ho, Jang Young-hwan Screenplay by Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won Story by Bong Joon-ho Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Chang Hyae-jin I like South Korean drama. Last year I encountered Kingdom a period drama/zombie series that …
A Christmas Carol (2019) Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Written by Steven Knight Story by Charles Dickens Directed by Nick Murphy Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge Andy Serkis as Ghost of Christmas Past Stephen Graham as Jacob Marley Charlotte Riley as Lottie/Ghost of Christmas Present Joe Alwyn as Bob Cratchit Vinette Robinson …
The Rich are Different: a review of Ready or Not! Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Produced by: Tripp Vinson; James Vanderbilt; Willem Sherak & Bradley J. Fischer Written by: Guy Busick; R. Christopher Murphy Starring: Samara Weaving; Adam Brody; Mark O’Brien; Henry Czerny; Andie MacDowell This is a smart, dark, funny movie that …
The Irishman Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Martin Scorsese Robert De Niro Jane Rosenthal Emma Tillinger Koskoff Irwin Winkler Gerald Chamales Gastón Pavlovich Randall Emmett Gabriele Israilovici Screenplay by Steven Zaillian Based on I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt Cast Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa Joe …
Klaus Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, J.K. Simmons, Joan Cusack, Will Sasso, and Norm MacDonald Director: Sergio Pablos Screenwriters: Sergio Pablos, Jim Mahoney Companies: Netflix Dinner was on, wood was chucked, wife was working, so I looked in Netflix and wound up watching an animated Christmas movie. Don’t look at me like that. There have …
The King Directed by David Michôd Produced by David Michôd, Joel Edgerton, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Liz Watts Written by David Michôd, Joel Edgerton Based on Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V by William Shakespeare Starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn …
A Silent Voice (2106) anime Eiga Koe no Katachi, also read as The Shape of Voice. Kyoto Animation Directed by Naoko Yamada Produced by Eharu Ōhashi Shinichi Nakamura Mikio Uetsuki Toshio Iizuka Kensuke Tateishi Usually, if I see an anime that is about 12 or 13 year old schoolkids, I immediately shut the damn thing …
In the Shadow of the Moon Directed by: Jim Mickle Produced by: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh, Rian Cahill, Linda Moran, Jim Mickle Written by: Gregory Weidman & Geoff Tock Cast: Boyd Holbrook as Thomas Lockhart Cleopatra Coleman as Rya Bokeem Woodbine as Maddox Rudi Dharmalingam as Naveen Rao Rachel Keller as Jean Michael C. Hall …
The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot Written, Directed, and Produced by Robert D. Krzykowski Other Producers: Patrick Ewald, Shaked Berenson Cast Sam Elliott … Calvin Barr Aidan Turner … Calvin Barr Caitlin FitzGerald … Maxine Ron Livingston … Flag Pin Rizwan Manji … Maple Leaf Sean Bridgers … Mr. Gardner Larry Miller …