Merry freakin' Christmas.
The critic to audience disparity for this on Rotten Tomatoes is hilariously huge (I must be a filthy snob, as I nearly always find myself on the critic's side when this happens). I'll add my vote to the praise column on this one. It's thematically dense and thought provoking, has great performances, an engaging visual aesthetic and feel, and I really enjoy the way Lowery continues to treat time as a strange, non linear space (though A…
"Don't ya see Bill, you're always one punch away."
Robert Wise's The Set-Up is the story of Stoker, a boxer widely considered to have left his best years behind him at the age of 35. He has a shot at a 23 year old kid who he truly believes that he can beat, and that when he does he will finally get his chance at the title. There's just one problem - no one else believes he can win. His wife…
"You can't even dream a whole dream, can you?"
When everyone else heads off for the holiday break, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) draws the short straw and is left behind with school cook Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) to babysit Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa) the only remaining student with nowhere to go after the other four holdovers manage to escape to something more fun.
Alexander Payne's The Holdovers is likely to cement itself as a holiday season classic as it walks…
"He wants it for spite...we want it for sentiment"
A feud between the Hornblower and Hillcrist families erupts after the Hornblowers break a condition on a land purchase by kicking 30 year tenants, the Jackmans, off the land so it can be ravaged by industrializing it for profit.
Perhaps the dullest of Hitchcock films? Certainly the dullest I've seen at least. It's basically a war between old school "proper" rich people sensibilities and the young upstart rich who have no…
"Oh what the hell, I'm probably dead anyway"
Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) collapses on the stage after being voter prom queen at her high school reunion. She awakens as her younger self in high school with a chance to try and do things differently and change her life to avoid the unhappiness of where she winds up.
Peggy Sue Got Married has a kind of Christmas Carol vibe to it. She's granted this incredible chance to visit her past without…
"Honey, you don't become a star. You either are one, or you ain't. I am."
Babylon follows silent film star Jack Conroy (Brad Pitt), young go getter with aspirations Manny Torres (Diego Calva) and aspiring actress Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie). Life is good and getting better for all three as they find more and more success in the silent film era. The wild parties seem like they'll never end. Fame, renown and power seems anything but fleeting. However, things are…
