In the intro scene of The Outfit, a tailor (no, a “cutter,” as he prefers to be called), talks us through the art of designing, cutting, and tailoring a bespoke suit for a gentleman. The camera lovingly follows the hands of this man (Mark Rylance), as he unrolls reams of fabrics, traces designs, and wields …
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is an undeniably gorgeous film noir, right from the opening scene. We see a man rip up the floorboards in a decrepit remote house, put a body into the floor, and light the whole house on fire. The flames and the pieces of the scene pop up as flashbacks as …
It takes no leap of the imagination to picture Hollywood remaking this film with Liam Neeson as the star. After all, this crime thriller/drama (with just enough twisted humor to make you laugh) is really just a Danish take on a tired, familiar trope. A deployed, weathered soldier receives the worst call from home: His …
Grace (Nicole Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant) live the perfect life of the wealthy elite in New York City. She is a successful psychologist, sensitive and kind. He is an oncologist for children, which should qualify him for sainthood. Their cute (but luckily not precocious) son attends an exclusive private school. Basically, they are living …
NOTE: Warner Bros. Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray TM I reviewed in this Blog Post. The opinions I share are my own. Ostensibly, The Outsider is a story about exonerating a man accused of a crime he not only did not commit, but could not have committed. Terry Maitland (Jason …
In the preface, we meet Leilani (Issa Rae) and Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) cute, giggly, and obviously crazy about each other after a hook-up that certainly looks like it is going to lead to something more serious. Jump ahead four years, and they are living together, bickering about little things, and their habits are getting on …
We meet an attractive man and woman (Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith) on an awkward Tinder date at a diner. The date is not going well, but it’s just about to get a whole lot worse. On the drive home, they are pulled over for what seems to be a routine traffic stop. Did I …
SYNOPSIS: It’s open season on Harley Quinn when her explosive breakup with the Joker puts a big fat target on her back. Unprotected and on the run, Quinn faces the wrath of narcissistic crime boss Black Mask, his right-hand man, Victor Zsasz, and every other thug in the city. But things soon even out for …
Natalie Portman sports the aforementioned tragic fake hair to star as Lucy Cola, a chronic overachiever, Type-A personality and NASA astronaut who’s just returned from her latest mission and is already itching to get back in space. She’s married to Drew (Dan Stevens), a grinning, aw-shucks-wholesome marketing executive for the space agency, who behaves as …
In what’s perhaps a strangely appropriate role, Robert Redford – in what he says might be his final foray on the big screen after an illustrious decades-long career – stars as Tucker, whose own lifelong antics on the wrong side of the law may likewise finally be winding down. A career criminal who’s been in …