Welcome to the final installment of this season’s Best Picture Challenge. Check out my thoughts on films seven through nine below. Ford v. Ferrari With Le Mans 1966 as the backdrop, officials at Ford look to do the impossible. They plan to construct a race car that can compete against a thoroughbred of car racing: [...]
Welcome to part deux of my Best Picture Challenge in conjunction with the 92nd Oscars. In this post, I’m talking about The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, and Joker. // The Irishman I was stunned to discover this film had a three-and-a-half hour runtime. Good Lord! If you can get over that - and how the film [...]
The 2020 Oscars ceremony is February 9. It’s a shortened season, but I’m determined to see and review each of the nine Best Picture nominees. In the spirit of a shortened season, I’ve decided to conquer the writing portion of this challenge in three parts, publishing snippet reviews of each of the nine nominees. Let’s [...]
An epic film based on an equally epic novel, time to dive into The Goldfinch. Director John Crowley's film, based on Donna Tartt's Pullitzer Prize winning novel, follows Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley and Ansel Elgort) who is taken in by an upper-class family after his mother is tragically killed in a terrorist attack at the [...]
If there's anything I love, it's a film with a good story. While not perfect, The Art of Racing in the Rain provided just that for me. Simon Curtis' film takes us through the life of a golden retriever, Enzo (voiced by Kevin Costner), and his owner Denny Swift (Milo Ventimiglia), a race car driver [...]
The Lion King started out as a project with many unknowns, but would soon become one of the most beloved Disney films of all time. Now, 25 years after its release, the iconic story gets the remake treatment. Do I really need to bore you with a plot summary? I mean, if you have not [...]
Tom Holland is back as our friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man in Far From Home. Let's see if it lives up to the first film of the sub-series, featuring the talented young actor. The film picks up where Avengers: Endgame leaves off, a totally different world for Peter Parker (Holland). Tony Stark is gone and has left [...]
