Review: “Logan”

4.5 out of 5 stars. Eight years ago, leaving the theater after watching the terrible, clichéd, first stand-alone Wolverine movie, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” I never would have thought the franchise would be here now. And yet, here we are. “Logan” is the third Wolverine standalone (following a middling 2013 effort simply titled “The Wolverine”) and […]

Review: “Get Out”

**Minor spoilers for “Get Out” are in this review, so please go see the film before reading!** 4.5 out of 5 stars. “Get Out” is a master class in horror filmmaking, made all the more impressive by the fact that it is the feature film directing and screenwriting debut of Jordan Peele, formerly one half […]

Oscar Predictions

We’re officially less than a week away from Hollywood’s biggest night. The 89th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 26. Damien Chazelle’s gorgeous musical “La La Land” received a record-tying 14 nominations, and is the favorite to win a majority of them, including Best Picture, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still predictions […]

Review: “John Wick: Chapter 2”

4.5 out of 5 stars. They call him the Boogeyman, and whisper about that time he killed three men in a bar with only a pencil. As much as everyone hypes up the skills of assassin John Wick, it would be very easy to fail to meet audience expectations for the character. But not only […]

Review: “The Lego Batman Movie”

5 out of 5 stars. In 2014, “The Lego Movie” delighted critics and audiences, though not exactly in the way most people expected. It wasn’t just an irreverent, fast-paced adventure that’s enjoyable for both kids and kids-at-heart; at the end it revealed a beautiful, moving message that elevated the material beyond typical family fare. In […]

Last minute Oscar nominee predictions

Early tomorrow morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards. Before the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month, I posted a list of predictions for Oscar winners and nominees in almost every category. A lot has happened since then, so here’s my revised list before […]

Review: “Lion”

4 out of 5 stars. It’s appropriately poignant that we don’t learn the significance of the title “Lion” until the end of the movie. For the end of the film marks the end of Saroo’s years long journey to find his birth family, a quest he pursued with the ferocity and determination often associated with […]

Review: “Hidden Figures”

5 out of 5 stars. There are a lot of stories lurking in the shadows of history, just waiting for someone to come along and tell them. We all know about the Space Race, and astronaut John Glenn, who was the first American to circle the Earth. But the film “Hidden Figures” tells a side […]

Let’s make Oscar predictions!

If you know me, you know that a sizable portion of my life revolves around awards season. Back in August, I made some predictions for what movies could possibly be nominated for Academy Awards come Oscar time. With the Critic’s Choice Awards behind us and the Golden Globe Awards this weekend, awards season is in […]

10 Best Movies of 2016

2016 has come to a close, and as strange and often sad as this year was, at least we can say we got some great movies out of it. In fact, this was the first year I can remember that I struggled to fill my list of the year’s top 10 movies not because there […]