Mike Flannigan's Doctor Sleep takes on a tough task, trying to be a sequel to both a book and a movie, neither of which are much like the other. He has taken this task on before, adapting a gothic novel of 1959 into Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House with resounding success. That series was... Continue Reading →

THIS FILM IS BASED ON AN ACTUAL LIE! The Farewell tells the story of Billi, an American raised Chinese girl and her family who finds out her grandmother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In a controversial to American audiences but totally within culture for a Chinese family, they decide NOT to tell the grandmother... Continue Reading →

Sonic, the little blue hedgehog from a 30 year old video game finally gets his own movie. Well, a live action film. Sonic has enjoyed years of games and an animated series that I really never watched as a child, because the other video game properties that had been turned into cartoon shows sucked. I... Continue Reading →

Before I even begin the movies new name is Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey rather than the extremely stupid title, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, which I will never understand how that title got the green light, especially in this day and age in Hollywood. Regardless of what the... Continue Reading →

"Fuck you, it's January!" - Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman of Redlettermedia. This is a reference to the idea that movie studios dump their garbage in earliest and least attended month of the year, January. However, not everything that lands in this month is total trash, or maybe my expectations are so low that some... Continue Reading →

The Searchers was released at the peak of the western in cinematic history. There were great westerns before and after this movie, but there are few that exemplify the genre as well as The Searchers. However, it wouldn’t be my first recommendation to someone who is new to the western. It has the all the... Continue Reading →