Tag: Ray Liotta
Box Office Breakdown for Weekend of 9/1/24
What’s up, Geeks + Gamers? It’s ODIN! Newcomers Reagan, AfrAId, 1992 Fail to Impress While some in the mainstream media run with the notion of seemingly impressive summer box office totals being up quite a bit from last year’s abysmal box office totals, they cannot change the fact that this L...
Read MoreREVIEW: Cocaine Bear (2023)
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Feb 25, 2023 | 1
Unlike the majority of movies and television discussed on this site, Universal Pictures’ Cocaine Bear is an incredibly difficult movie to review. Cocaine Bear is not an intelligent movie. It is not well-acted, well-written, or well-done, and the script is utterly atrocious. But hot damn if it isn�...
Read MoreGoodfellas, the Alamo Drafthouse, and the Moviegoing Experience
People have been calling time of death on movie theaters for years, and several big events in the last decade have exacerbated those predictions. The rise of streaming was the big one, with Netflix and its progeny offering your choice of films and shows for a monthly fee that is, at least here in Ne...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
The Many Saints of Newark was a risky proposition from the get-go. To follow up something as beloved and intricately constructed as The Sopranos is one of the clearest examples of a fool’s errand imaginable. It becomes greater in the wake of El Camino, which added nothing to Breaking Bad and ruine...
Read MoreThe Tragedy of Marriage Story
Like many people, I was instantly excited by the announcement of Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach’s latest Netflix release. I’ve really enjoyed some of his other films, like While We’re Young and, especially, The Meyerowitz Stories. Marriage Story features another amazing ensemble cast, including...
Read MoreHaving an Old Friend for Dinner
“I came halfway around the world to watch you run.” Movie sequels are a real crapshoot. There’s no exact formula to getting them right, and you’re almost guaranteed to never please everybody. Public opinion is mysterious; people will praise some movies for doing things that they criticize in...
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