Month: June 2023

Director: Michael Ritchie Starring: Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Jackie Earle Haley Year: 1976 One of my favorite sports movies from my childhood, The Bad News Bears is wrong in all…

Director: Cameron Crowe Starring: Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr. Year: 1996 The first time I watched Jerry Maguire (and it must have been around the time it first…

Director: Andrew Jarecki Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella Year: 2010 All Good Things might be an alright movie, a moderately entertaining time spent in front of your TV,…

Director: William Boyd Starring: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, James D’Arcy, Julian Rhind-Tutt Antony Strachan, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Danny Dyer, Ciaran McMenamin Year: 1999 WWII movies get most of the…

Director: Oliver Hermanus Starring: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp Year: 2022 Had I seen it when it came out, Living would have been my favorite film of 2022,…

Director: Claire Denis Starring: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn Year: 2022 Man has Margaret Qualley come a long way (downward) since breaking onto the scene in Nice Guys and Novitiate. I…

Director: Aaron Schneider Starring: Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan Year: 2020 A few years ago when AppleTV was new, we had Greyhound, a Tom Hanks WWII movie that only…

Director: Sam Hargrave Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Tornike Gogrichiani Year: 2023 The first Extraction was a huge surprise. A Netflix film, a shoot-em-up, Thor as the lead, some first…

Director: F Gary Gray Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton Year: 2003 Were our standards low in 2003? Because I remember Italian Job as being cool, when, really, it…