Streaming Recap: January 2020

January is usually a slow time of year, for movies and for me. I spent the last month playing catch up on a lot of television that I missed toward the end of 2019 (and if you need me I’ll be screaming about HBO’s “Watchmen” for the foreseeable future), taking advantage of the fact that […]

Predicting the 2020 Oscar Nominations

The Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards are behind us now, and in the early hours of tomorrow morning, the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards (occurring February 9) will be announced. I’m coming in hot with some super last minute predictions for who I think will be nominated tomorrow morning. I am excluding […]

Streaming Recap: December 2019

Adam Driver, festive royal families, and dogs: here’s a series of mini reviews of movies released on streaming services in December. THE REPORT (AMAZON) Okay, technically “The Report” was a November release, but it came in at the end of the month so I’m going to let it slide. Scott Z. Burns’ film, which I […]

Top 10 Movies of 2019

2019 is over, and you know what that means- it’s time to reflect on the best movies released this past year. Everybody under the sun may be making their “best of 2019” lists right now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to miss out. You can check out my picks for what I believe to […]

Streaming Recap: November 2019

With the holiday season in full swing, tons of movies were released on streaming services in November, from Christmas comedies to awards season contenders. You can read my capsule reviews of new movies released on Netflix and Disney Plus in November below. HOLIDAY IN THE WILD (NETFLIX) “Holiday in the Wild,” directed by Ernie Barbarash, […]

Top 5 Movies of Summer 2019

We are now into the first week of September, and that means that the summer movie season is officially at its end. But before we look forward to awards season and holiday blockbusters, it’s time to look back on the summer that began with what is now the highest grossing movie of all time, “Avengers: […]

Netflix Roundup May 2019

Netflix and even other such streaming services like Hulu and Amazon Prime have been churning out so many original movies on a weekly basis, it is sometimes hard to keep track of them all. Rather than individually review each film, I’ve decided to start doing mini reviews of all the streaming originals I’ve watched in […]

2019 Oscar Nominee Predictions

The 2019 awards season is now in full swing, and while there are plenty of movies gathering accolades and generating conversation, so much regarding this year’s Oscar race is still up in the air. Many categories that a month ago seemed set have been thrown into confusion thanks to recent awards ceremonies like the Golden […]

Predicting the 2019 Golden Globes

2018 may have come and gone, but the celebration of movies released last year is only just beginning. The 76th annual Golden Globe Awards take place Sunday, January 6, serving as the first major award show of the season. The Globes (the winners for which are chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) traditionally aren’t […]

Top 10 Movies of 2018

The end of the year is always hard for me, as it comes time to narrow down the 70 or so new films I watched this year into a list that reflects the ten best. 2018 didn’t come with as many films that I loved or personally connected with as past years have, but the […]