Tag: Jesse Plemons

  • Killers of the Flower Moon review: an ugly part of American history exposed

    Killers of the Flower Moon review: an ugly part of American history exposed

    Killers of the Flower Moon hit theaters at a time when certain factions in America want to erase the sins of the past from history. Martin Scorsese directed this movie, which takes a 3 hour and 28 minute look at one of those sinful episodes. The story involves the Osage people of Oklahoma, who had…

  • Love and Death: Elizabeth Olsen is extraordinary

    Love and Death: Elizabeth Olsen is extraordinary

    Love and Death stars Elizabeth Olsen in a brilliant performance as Candy Montgomery, the Texas housewife who admitting killing her neighbor and friend with an axe.

  • Review: The Power of the Dog

    Review: The Power of the Dog

    The Power of the Dog, written and directed by Jane Campion, is assumed by many to be Benedict Cumberbatch’s film as he portrays a bullying, hypermasculine cowboy in 1925 Montana. Cumberbatch is terrific, I’ll admit that. But I think it’s Kodi Smit-McPhee’s film as Peter, the ‘Nancy Boy’ in the story. Hear me out.

  • Review: Jungle Cruise, a fun fantasy

    Review: Jungle Cruise, a fun fantasy

    Jungle Cruise is finally free to anyone with a Disney+ subscription. So I watched it. The adventure tale was full of magic, fun, fantasy and a terrific Emily Blunt as the woman who made it all happen.

  • Review: The Post

    Review: The Post

     The Post taps into the modern political situation like it was 1971. I don’t know how filmmakers tap into the zeitgeist of a particular moment with films like The Post that take months or years to make, but they do it again and again.

  • Watch This: Trailer for The Post

    Watch This: Trailer for The Post

    Are you old enough to remember The Pentagon Papers? Just in case that was before your time, they were 700 pages of secret government documents about the Viet Nam War. They made the government look very bad. Very bad. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks star in The Post to tell the story of how those…