Original US release date: April 14, 2000 Production budget: $7,000,000 Worldwide gross: $34,266,564 Here we have another #ThrowbackThursday film that I saw only once, shortly after its release. This one might as well be new to me, as any significant memory of what I saw has been forced out of my brain by eighteen additional... Continue Reading →
Original US release date: May 30, 2003 Production budget: $94,000,000 Worldwide gross: $940,335,536 I've been a Pixar fan as long as most everyone else has been: since the beginning. Still, in spite of that, I somehow missed seeing Finding Nemo in the theaters upon its original release. I still don't really recall how that happened. I've... Continue Reading →
From director-writer Sean Baker comes another unique film from A24 studios in the form of The Florida Project. Set during an Orlando summer, the story centers on six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), her single mother Halley (Bria Vinaite), and their adventures with their friends and each other as they struggle through day-to-day life living in a low-rent... Continue Reading →
I've mentioned it before, but I love myself an old-fashioned locked-room mystery. I love them enough that I'm staying up late to see Murder on the Orient Express and then write this post, even though I have to get up early in the morning in order to catch a flight to Rhode Island. I've never read... Continue Reading →
Original US release date: December 19, 1986 Production budget: $6,000,000 Worldwide gross: $138,530,565 #ThrowbackThursday returns with the second Oliver Stone film in the last three weeks, with Born on the Fourth of July being the first, two weeks ago. Much like that film, Platoon is also set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. However, where Born on... Continue Reading →
Original US release date: December 22, 1989 Production budget: $14,000,000 Worldwide gross: $161,001,698 For the second week in a row, #ThrowbackThursday features a Tom Cruise film. That's not by design (though I can tell you that more are on the way, at some point) and, unlike last week's featured movie, I had never seen Born on... Continue Reading →
Original US release date: November 15, 1996 Production budget: $27,000,000 Worldwide gross: $231,976,425 As big of a movie buff as I am, I have spent 21 years dragging my heels when it comes to seeing The English Patient. There's a reason for that. It's not a good reason, though. It's actually a rather stupid reason. ... Continue Reading →
The Great Wall is the latest film from acclaimed Chinese director Yimou Zhang (Hero, House of Flying Daggers). The movie doesn't arrive free of controversy, though - as with most quote/unquote "controversy" - it's of the ignorantly manufactured type. People everywhere took to their keyboards to accuse Universal Studios of whitewashing a film about the... Continue Reading →
If anyone were to ask me what the greatest film trilogy of all-time is, I might give an unexpected answer. In my mind, it's not Star Wars. It's not The Godfather. It's not Indiana Jones. Or Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Nor is it Spider-Man. Or Back to the Future. No, no. I feel that the... Continue Reading →
The Movie March! 