As with The Last Jedi, I hoped to like this movie. Also as with The Last Jedi, Skywalker thwarted those hopes. Release: 2019 Director: J. J. Abrams Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, John Boyega, etc. Screenplay: Chris Terrio, J. J. Abrams Spoilers? None. I’ll stop just short of saying there’s no […]
Category Archives: Reviews
Reviews and reflections about movies, screenplays, and books.
100 Movies: #3, The Last Jedi
Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. Everyone in my house wanted to see The Rise of Skywalker, out in theaters now. Having forgotten everything that happened in the previous story apart from Mark Hamill sitting on a rock somewhere off the coast of Scotland, it seemed a […]
100 Movies: #2, Cake
I found out about this movie because I hadn’t yet learned how to work our DVD player well enough to skip the trailers. As I patiently sat through the trailers, waiting to watch Wild (Reese Witherspoon), I saw this one and thought it looked worthy of a library loan. It’s worth a lot more than […]
