Reviews and reflections about movies, screenplays, and books.
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 […]
Spoilers? Kinda sorta. Please go watch the movie. This humorous twist on a whodunit makes me hungry for the prospect of a franchise. The movie, written and directed by Rian Johnson, centers around the death of eccentric mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). His surviving family members, all entitled, betray one another to varying degrees […]
