Shock and Awe exists exclusively to exploit a market for journalism movies whittled down into easily digestible, unchallenging chunks, à la James Vanderbilt’s 2015 clunker Truth. This heavy-handed pat…
Movie Review: LBJ
LBJ is a film that is wholly unnecessary because it’s already been done by way of the 2016 HBO movie, All the Way, starring Bryan Cranston. Woody Harrelson’s performance as Lyndon Johnson …
Everything is Copy: Nora Ephron’s Journey in Writing About Her Life
Heartburn. When Harry Met Sally… . Sleepless in Seattle. Julia & Julia. None of these films would have been had Nora Ephron not wrote—or sometimes directed—them. Ephron wrote articles for the New …
TV Review: About a Boy Season 2 Premiere – “About a Vasectomy'”
About a Boy caught me by surprise; in the past week, I’ve binge-watched season one. As a fan of the film, the show had me with doubts from its initial announcement, but watching it I was finding mysel…
Jon’s Movie Review: “And So It Goes” Takes Us Nowhere
For the most part, I take great pleasure in visiting my grandparents. Listening to stories of bygone days, daily struggles made irrelevant by new technologies, and cyclical hardships that seem to echo…
The Top 10 Reasons To Look Forward To The Upcoming Films of 2013
Now that the Summer blockbuster season has been laid to rest, the Fall awards-focused season is taking over. Studios looking to win Oscars for their films like to bundle up as many of their movies lat…