If Beale Street Could Talk: Black Beauty

Bumblebee: Finally, A Good Transformers Movie!

Mortal Engines: Big on Scale, Low on Depth

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – When Worlds Collide

The Favourite: Delightfully Demented Drama

Mini Reviews 2018: Game Night, Jurassic World, Crazy Rich Asians and More!

I’ve seen plenty of movies this year, but didn’t have the chance to review them all. Maybe I didn’t catch it in theaters, maybe I didn’t have enough to say to warrant a full review, or maybe I just didn’t have the time. To make up for this, I’ve compiled a collection of short reviews of movies that, for whatever reason, I didn’t get to the first time around. Enjoy.

Ralph Breaks The Internet: Virtual Insanity

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Magic is Gone

Widows: The Struggle is Real

Bohemian Rhapsody: The Show Must Go On

Suspiria: A Remake Done Right

First Man: For A Movie About Space, It's Incredibly Grounded

Bad Times at the El Royale: Bad Time for Them, Good Time for Us

Venom: An Amorphous Blob of Black Goo

A Simple Favor: A Noir For Those Who Prefer Martinis to Whiskey

White Boy Rick: A Superficially Sensational True Crime Story

The Happytime Murders: Does It Deserve the Hate?

BlacKkKlansman: Spike Lee Pulls Back the Hood of Racism

Eighth Grade: A Coming of Age Story for the Digital Age

Sorry to Bother You: The Best Kind of Crazy

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Marvel’s Little Guy Goes Big

My Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2018 (so far)

The year is half over, and that means it’s time to do a mid-year review. My opinions on some of these movies might change when the time comes to make my official list at the end of the year, but for the time being, here are the highlights of my movie-going experience in 2018.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado – I Asked For This?

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: I’m Not Crying, WE’RE ALL CRYING!

Incredibles 2: Not All Heroes Wear Capes

Hereditary: And You Think Your Family’s Messed Up

Upgrade: Stronger, Faster, More Badass

How to Talk to Girls at Parties: Super Weird, and Not in A Good Way

Solo: A Star Wars Story - I Had A Bad Feeling About This

Deadpool 2: The Merc with the Mouth's Midlife Crisis

Avengers: Infinity War – It’s All Been Leading to This

You Were Never Really Here: A Case Study In Subtle Brutality

On #ChangeTheChannel and the Fall of Channel Awesome: A Fan’s Perspective

A Quiet Place: Shut Up And Go See It

Isle of Dogs: This Movie Is A Good Boy

Ready Player One: At Least It's Better Than The Book

Pacific Rim: Uprising – Bigger Doesn’t Always Mean Better

Thoroughbreds: Blue Blood on White Collars

A Wrinkle in Time: Needs A Few Kinks Ironed Out

Red Sparrow: Sexy, Sleazy, Insipid

Annihilation: A Cinematic Lucid Nightmare

Early Man: It Doesn’t Reinvent the Wheel

Black Panther: Hail to the King

My 2018 Oscar Predictions

The nominees for the 90^th Academy Awards were announced recently, and since that means we’ll be going through the annual cycle of bellyaching over how the Oscars don’t matter while having intense online debates about whether or not the Oscars matter, I thought I’d throw my two cents into who will or probably should win. On one hand, I think it’s great that there’s more diversity on display this year, but I’m a bit more cynical about who the awards will actually go to. This isn’t academy voting, just predictions based on what I know about the Oscars’ taste and my own personal opinion, with all my biases in tow. Also, there were some categories where I saw none of the nominations (Best Foreign Film, Best Animated Short, Best Short, Best Documentary, Best Documentary Short), so those will be skipped. Let’s start with the big one:

Phantom Thread: A Sleek, Stylish, If Not Uncomfortable Dress of a Movie

How (And How Not) To Make A Movie Soundtrack

WARNING: The following essay contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Baby Driver, and Suicide Squad. 

I, Tonya: The Story You Thought You Knew

The Top 5 Movies of 2017 (That I Wish I Liked More)

When you’ve seen as many movies as I have, you come across a few that are this close to being great, but have one or two things that hold it back. Maybe there was some element baked into the film that you flat-out hated (a certain scene, a certain character, an underlying message etc.), maybe it doesn’t live up to the hype surrounding it, or maybe it just doesn’t appeal to your particular taste. Keep in mind that I do like all of these movies to some degree. Most of them were even in the running for my year-end list. But there was something in the way that kept me from outright loving them. Many a fan and critic have lined up to court these movies, but I’m perfectly content with just staying friends.