Review: If Beale Street Could Talk

There was no way I was going to miss Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to his Oscar-winning feature Moonlight! If Beale Street Could Talk is Jenkins’ newest venture; a stunning and magnificently adapted work derived from the great novel written by the late James Baldwin. If Beale Street Could Talk follows Tish Rivers, a young woman from […]

Review: The Disaster Artist

Gather round! Gather round! For a tale must be told about an uncommon thespian who made a film that was certainly “bold”. Once upon the 1990s, an aspiring actor named Greg was working through a wall, trying to break through to his own talent. Greg’s efforts yield unsuccessful fruit and he finds himself lost until […]

An Assessment that is Summer 2016 at the Movies

I certainly didn’t see every movie that came out this summer but I certainly tried to see every movie of note that was released. To say that the films released between the period of mid-May to the twilight of August and speaking of the twilight of August: we’re in it! The Rio Olympics, which I […]

Review: Now You See Me 2

Christopher Nolan’s magic-based thriller The Prestige, taught me that the second act of a magician’s performance is called The Turn, where the artist sets up the trick to lead to something profound and extraordinary. I suppose one could call Now You See Me 2 a turn of sorts, but I prefer to call it a […]

Movie of the Week: Now You See Me 2

Count this among the many movies that did not need a sequel but I’m going to see it anyway because I happened to like the first film, even though a great many did not. Remember the names J. Daniel Atlas, Merrick McKinney, Dylan Rhodes and Jack Wilder? They’re characters from the prestidigitation-based thriller Now You […]

Review: Now You See Me

“First rule of magic: always be the smartest person in the room“-Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas In the new film “Now You See Me,” director Louis Letterier pits a team of FBI agents against an opponent more formidable and complex than terrorists, hackers or mercenaries. FBI Agent Dylan Rhodes, played by Academy Award nominee […]