Movies, Music, and Food Through the Lens of Ryan Thompson
With his recent, controversial comments about the Marvel Cinematic Universe that angered many people like myself, Martin Scorsese still is considered by many film historians as one of Cinema’s greatest directors of all time. He helped ferociously amp up the genres of gangster films and biopics. When everyone heard that his latest 3 and a […]
Sometimes around the year, there comes a war movie like “Hacksaw Ridge” that compels and stays with people, but once the big, fat, grey elephant in the room messes with these kind of movies, then it is pretty much screwed up. That is the urban dictionary definition of once-good German director Roland Emmerich, who has […]
Man, has Taika Waititi been having the decade of his life. He directed two critically-acclaimed indie comedies, directed an MCU flick, and starred in the highest-grossing movie of all time, which is also an MCU flick. Gee whiz. I feel extremely confident that Taika Waititi will receive his first Oscar for his best film to […]
Enter the great and powerful Robert Eggers, whom along with Ari Aster, Mike Flanagan, and Jordan Peele, can still make horror films effective and eerie as of today. With his debut feature “The Witch”, I just was curious what film he was going to do next. Then the announcements came and good ol’ jolly Robert […]
Red flags can maybe equal the country of Russia or something involving a sport of some kind, but in the movie-making business, it represents an awful, artificial recipe for especially a bad movie. Specificially, the worst example of a bad movie is a tremendously awful comedy sequel no one even asked for at all. Last […]
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, comes a golden, shiny award for Renee Zellweger for playing one of Cinema’s greatest actresses to ever grace on the silver screen. Director Rupert Goold fully examines the hard spots of Judy Garland’s last living years in life while blending themes of childhood and family. Set in the […]
Looking back two years ago, I found the first part of “It” sort of a overrated, yet decent movie. The aspects that bothered me the most were some of the kid acting and how Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise came off at times. The problems kind of compare to how I thought of this year’s “Scary Stories […]
Directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz have recently released true, raw evidence as to why more people with disabilities need to be in more movies. Their latest movie “The Peanut Butter Falcon” showcases that ‘evidence’ and then some to an extremely high degree. It might kind of treat well at the box office, too. Zack […]
Coming-of-age films have been a genre for me that has suffered throughout the last five years ever since “The Fault in Our Stars” came out. With the exception of Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade”, movies like “Lady Bird”, “The Souvenir”, and “The Edge of Seventeen” I felt like were overpraised and did not stick to the […]
When it comes to directors I have a mixed reaction to, Richard Linklater will definitely come up as an example to my perspective. Movies like “Dazed & Confused” and “Everybody Wants Some!!” (“Boyhood” excluded) I do find extremely overrated in terms of the premise-driven slice of life execution. My favorite movies from him are the […]