Movies, Music, and Food Through the Lens of Ryan Thompson
2019 is truly shaping up to be an amazing year for movies. Okay, sure. It’s not going to become another 1999 where we had masterpieces like “The Matrix”, “Fight Club”, “Magnolia”, and “Being John Malkovich”. But for the most part, we had some excellent gems in 2019 like recently with “Booksmart” and especially “Avengers: Endgame”. […]
Let me give you three wishes processing through my mind while I anticipated this remake. The first one would be for Will Smith to stay his own character instead of intentionally copying the legendary Robin Williams. The second would motivate Guy Ritchie to once again make a really good movie unlike “King Arthur: Legend of […]
Summer is beginning to fall with such promised hits like A24’s “The Souvenir” and “Booksmart”. Don’t worry. I will not exclude the blockbusters “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. Gosh, do they look so amazing. But let’s not forget the most important aspect of the year, ladies and gentlemen, […]
I understand that my crowd has been belting out, “Where is your ‘Avengers: Endgame’ review??!”. Listen. It is going to be on my “Top 5 Best Films of the Year So Far” post later this week and it’s going to be truly hip. Meanwhile, my “turbulent” perspective is onto a really energetic and relatable pop-star […]
I think I truly have the blues of the awful comedy sickness from 2017 after seeing this truly vile and grotesque comedy (No. I am not going to even call it a comedy or even a movie) called “Little”. Dear GOD. “Little” takes all of its logic and intelligence away and makes it the Disney […]
The church chorus is belting “Hallelujah, hallelujah!”. You know why? It is because the DC Extended Universe finally managed to make a film that has care, humor, and heart after making such an okay visual spectacle last year with “Aquaman”. David F. Sandberg might be one of the main reasons why this happened because his […]
As a common theme in the last two years of the film industry, animals have been a pivotal focus of the plot. The animal however that has been both commonly and importantly utilized the most would be the horse (and I am not talking about a future Mr. Ed reunion). Films like “Lean on Pete” […]
As of recent times, I have been thinking about the question, “Who is still the greatest director of all time?” It went around in dizzy circles with Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Stanley Kubrick. Steven Spielberg is arguably in my opinion, the greatest director of all time. Spielberg made films that completely changed the game […]
It is always a delight to see the Marvel Cinematic Universe to bring many independent directors to the table like Ryan Coogler (Creed, Fruitvale Station) for last year’s “Black Panther”, Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) for “Thor: Ragnarok”, and Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil) for “Doctor […]
AN ANONYMOUS ACADEMY MEMBER: John Bailey, we have a problem. JOHN BAILEY: What? (bored out of his mind) AN ANONYMOUS ACADEMY MEMBER: Not only did we upset many film fans by excluding live action short, makeup, cinematography and film editing awards, firing Kevin Hart as host, and adding a popular film category, but guess what? […]