Movies, Music, and Food Through the Lens of Ryan Thompson
“Relax. It’s a kid’s movie,” says the brainless mother who puts on “The Boss Baby” and “Arctic Dogs” for her six-year old children. This quote in the beginning of my review right there sums up Malcolm D. Lee’s completely ridiculous product placement extravaganza “Space Jam: A New Legacy” because it will be something parents would […]
On Monday, May 24, 2021, I got an intensely exciting emotion that never happened during this pandemic. My local drive-in theater was about to show “A Quiet Place Part II”, a movie I was planning to see as my first movie theater trip since last March. I started to jump out of my skin alerting […]
Let me just fathom this, ladies and gentlemen. I cannot believe that it has been just one year ever since COVID-19 made every building lock down and every one of us had to be locked down, too. Not to get too personal, but I have been awaiting extremely patient to get back to my accustomed […]
Lately, a lot of movies that were filmed during the current pandemic (that I thankfully refuse to see) were heavily panned by critics such as the Michael Bay-produced “Songbird” and Doug Liman’s “Locked Down”. I am proud to say we now finally have one that is definitely full of merit and energy. Let me introduce […]
2020 really has been our society’s worst nightmare indeed with grotesque racism, people losing their jobs, murder hornets, and of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. With all of last year’s events listed, all of us as a society have grown sick and tired of 2020. That does not mean we can treat 2021 the same as […]
It will be very depressing to not see the wonderful Chadwick Boseman’s acting in the future. His death like everyone else is one that I still cannot process like how it is with Robin Williams and Prince. Yes. It won’t even process when I get to be 82 years old. Director George C. Wolfe’s rousing […]
When seeing Aneesh Chaganty’s genius debut feature “Searching” back in 2018, it was something of a miracle to behold. Watching the way his story unfolds with its characters, tension, and unpredictable twists made it what is my favorite film of that year. Hearing that Aneesh Chaganty was making another movie brought so much excitement to […]
Netflix continues its streak with thought-provoking and riveting films with Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7”. Aaron Sorkin has got to be one of the greatest and most interesting screenwriters of Cinema with writing such classics as “The Social Network”, “A Few Good Men”, and what I consider his greatest controversially, “Moneyball”. I […]
Well, it’s been a while. Recently, I have been catching up with a handful of movies on VOD and most of them are kind of underwhelming. I’m talking to both of you, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and “First Cow”. I’ve been also reviewing them on YouTube as well. A week ago, I saw one of […]
In a midst of a quarantine, history happened for all of us folks. Universal had the opportunity to release many of their theatrical releases from their home. “Trolls: World Tour” was the main film that marked history as it was released on digital and on demand the same day it was originally going to hit […]