The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Joy (2015)
There is a breaking point for most people, when the soul-crushing frenzy of everyday life brings them face to face with the inevitability that three...
How to Be Single (2016)
There will come a moment, soon I hope, that Dakota Johnson will find her path to greatness. As a performer, there is something in her...
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
One of the things that you start to notice after you’ve taken several of the journeys of Joel and Ethan Coen is that often when...
The Hunting Ground (2015)
It is clear that filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering want to make you made, get you riled up, and call you to action. They...
Parting Shots
I value every single detail of the movies. From the opening moment, the titles, the introduction of the characters, the dilemma, the third act and...
When Marnie Was There (2015)
I ask you not to let the following sentence push you away because if it does, you’ll be missing something special. There is a pall...
The Revenant (2015)
There are people in my day-to-day life whose day is ruined if they can’t get to Starbucks. For them, I highly recommend The Revenant, a...
