Reviews and reflections on movies.
Release: 2019 Starring: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Danny Glover Directed by: Joe Talbot Screenwriters: Joe Talbot and Rob Richert, story by Jimmie Fails and Joe Talbot Spoilers? I’ll keep them minimal. It’s hard to know where to start with this movie, because it contains multitudes. Perhaps the easiest introduction is to borrow author […]
Release: 2018 Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant Directed by: Marielle Heller Screenplay by: Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty Spoilers? Fer shure. The film is based on a true story, adapted from Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger, by Lee Israel. The protagonist (let’s not call her a hero) is a […]
Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. Imagine, if you will, that the Monty Python troupe were Japanese and set out to make a western about an epic quest for the perfect bowl of ramen. That’s Tampopo. Release: 1985 Starring: Ken Watanabe, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho Director: Jûzô […]
