Letterboxd Review: The Last Movie Star (2017)
As a tribute to the late great Burt Reynolds, this concludes the Letterboxd reviews retrospective on different stages of the actor's long, storied career. And so, what words do I u…
As a tribute to the late great Burt Reynolds, this concludes the Letterboxd reviews retrospective on different stages of the actor's long, storied career. And so, what words do I u…
As a tribute to the late great Burt Reynolds, the next few weeks of Letterboxd reviews featured here will be a deep dive into the different stages of the man's career. You don'…
As a tribute to the late great Burt Reynolds, the next few weeks of Letterboxd reviews featured here will be a deep dive into three different stages of the man's career. The summer…
Some comic book characters just don't translate to the modern action blockbuster. Plastic-Man would be, let's say, prohibitively difficult to pull off. The Question is a very int…
So, this is one of those things where my review probably isn't going to line up with most everyone else. See, my son is four years old, and Jurassic World has been playing on repeat…
Belated sequels almost never work out. Too often, with more than a decade since the first entry in the series, there's an instinct to reacquire the zeitgeist and affection for it thr…
I'm so angry that I missed this one on the big screen. I feel like Denis Villeneuve must have sat down and had a Captain America instructional film playing that said, "So, you&#…
Yeah, this is fun. Especially a second viewing, when you don't have the red pen in hand and your "IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH FOR STAR WARS???!!!" game face on. It's exactly wh…
What can be said that hasn't already been said about this Marvel Giant-Size issue come to the big screen? It's a struggle to not just head back to reviews of 2012's first Ave…
I'll never question Steven Spielberg's ability to take a book with serious problems and turn it into a thrilling piece of popcorn cinema. I mean, Jaws was a terrible novel and …
I'm still reeling from the realization that Ridley Scott is capable of such a dramatic spectrum of quality. He's a filmmaker who makes masterpieces, and also makes some hot garba…
Unable to watch the 90th Academy Awards this last Sunday due to technical difficulties, I settled for watching the Best Picture winner of the 89th, and I wasn't disappointed. In a ca…
Edgar Wright has always been a master of choreography, but when every gunshot and every gearshift in the film is as perfectly synchronized to the insanely specific soundtrack, oh and sa…
I'm not going to make some shitty quip about how the title of this film is more accurate than its creators probably intended, yuk-yuk, fart-noise. But I will say that Wain, Colton, …
Shared cinematic universes don't work unless they come together organically. Trying to make one good film with the partial blueprints of an eight-film series is folly, pure and simp…