Movies, Music, and Food Through the Lens of Ryan Thompson
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quentin Tarantino is wildly known by many (including me) as one of the most ingenious filmmakers working today. He changed the word “cinema” forever in every shape of form after winning his Palme D’or award for “Pulp Fiction” at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994. Two weeks ago, I saw his latest flick “Once Upon […]
Man. I did not expect Bleecker Street to be one of the best independent companies working today after all of the underwhelming films A24 released recently this year (I’m talking to you, “The Souvenir”). “The Tomorrow Man” greatly represents this statement making it out to be one of the more memorable romantic comedies in recent […]
Finding gold in a silver mine (“Honky Cat” reference) might be an expert task when finding such a unique and memorable biopic that is “out, out, out of sight” like Dexter Fletcher’s “Rocketman”. Unlike last year’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” where it still was a good movie of course, it played the music biopic treatment way too […]
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 […]
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? […]
Every time early this year, the “decent but not great” low-budget horror films that people want to kind of revisit come to play. It happened once back in January of 2016 with “The Boy” where audiences and critics were split. I can tell and guarantee you that the whole idea and concept of Nicholas McCarthy’s […]
Everyone loves the first “LEGO Movie” for its creative humor and imagination, while incorporating a strong, relatable message about creating your own imagination without any boundaries possible. I remember myself of course 5 years ago when the first film came out not just admiring the film, but also being obsessed with the LEGO sets which […]