The strange times continue as it remains necessary to isolate from friends and family. With all the anxiety and stress of these times, and cabin fever setting in, we need to find ways to escape from all of it, if only for a few hours. So here I am with my next quarantine/ social isolation …
Rob Reiner’s name may not be tossed in the ring when discussing the great film directors, but from 1984 to 1992 he went on quite the hot streak as far as filmographies go. Not only did he have a run of six great feature films, he managed the challenging task of never repeating himself throughout …
We’re all couped up in our homes in social isolation or quarantine, nowhere to go, not much to do. Luckily there is plenty to watch, right at our fingertips. I have just the thing to kill a few hours and take your mind off things while you live in social exile: the Julia Roberts Romantic …
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It’s Sunday night, maybe Sunday afternoon, and the realization that impending work week and Monday morning are drawing nigh. This feeling of dread or melancholy is colloquially referred to as the Smondays. But fear not, for I have the perfect antidote with which to put your troubled mind at ease and lay your worries down: …
When you think about the great spy movies, the first things that come to mind are the Bond movies, the Bourne Movies, Mission Impossible, but one movie that you probably don’t think of is Ronin. Ronin is a 1998 spy thriller by director John Frankenheimer, starring Robert De Niro in one of his last great …
It’s about time for another Sunday Night Movie recommendation. My prescribed cure for the Smondays, that time on a Sunday when the weekend stops being the weekend and starts being the night before Monday and you have to start thinking about that work or school week. A Sunday night movie is just the thing to …
Most people would agree that A View to a Kill is one of the lesser entries in the James Bond movie series. I quite like it myself, but that might have more to do with nostalgia than anything the movie actually does well. Objectively though, from a critical standpoint, it is not a very good …
The Smondays: that feeling on a Sunday afternoon or evening where the weekend ceases to feel like the weekend and the pressures of the encroaching work or school week start to weigh on you. Fear not, for I have just the prescription to cure that particular ailment: the Sunday Night Movie. Some easy escapism to …
Michael Mann’s Collateral is a bit of a forgotten classic of the thriller genre. It’s scope is large and encompassing and yet at the same time very intimate and personal. On the surface it is about a professional hit man who hires a cabbie to take him around Los Angeles to conduct his “business” over …
Quentin Tarantino’s latest feature film, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, is the type of pure cinematic joy that only he can deliver. It is the type of blazingly original movie that has become increasingly rare in the last decade, so when a new Tarantino flick arrives, it truly feels like a feast for the …
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