Month: September 2024

Megalopolis (2024)

“I’m sure I have missed a whole bunch of opportunities and I am going to miss others, but I caught a lot of them too. In the end it’s about how many I catch, not how many I lose.”

This quote from Francis Ford Coppola is from the film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, a film by his late wife, Eleanor, of just over sixty years (!). If he were an MLB hitter, Coppola would be a slugger hitter. He never would be one interested in just getting on base: He is swinging for the fences…at the back of the stadium.

Tags Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Francis Ford Coppola, Giancarlo Esposito, Grace Vanderwaal, Jason Schwartzman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Megalopolis, Movie Reviews, Nathalie Emmanuel, R, Rated R, Shia LaBeouf, Talia Shire

1 1/2 Stars

Uglies (2024)

I really wish I was taking notes during this movie.

Questions were abuzz in my mind during Uglies, one of the newest films on Netflix these days. That is not a good thing in this case.

Tags Based off of a book, Brianne Tju, Chase Stokes, Joey King, Laverne Cox, McG, PG-13, Rated PG-13, Uglies

3 1/2 Stars Movies

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Post author By Mark A. Lester
Post date September 9, 2024
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Like many my age, my cinematic discovery of Michael Keaton was the same as my cinematic discovery of Tim Burton (well, it was actually Batman Returns before Batman.) The third for each would end up being Beetlejuice.

As a kid, it took me a lot of convincing that the guy behind the Batman mask was the same playing the bio exorcist. Still, it was a near perfect introduction to the mind of Tim Burton (I did not get to Pee Wee until later in life), as it made me aware at a young age directors could have there own sense of style.

Tags 2024, Arthur Conti, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse, Catherine O' Hara, Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux, Michael Keaton, Monica Belluchi, PG-13, Rated PG, Rated PG-13, Tim Burton

5 Stars Movies

Sing Sing (2024)

In the thirty years since its release, it has been nearly unanimous across the globe that there is no other film about prison that can be any better than The Shawshank Redemption (it has sat at the top of the Top 250 IMDB list since I was in High School.)

I am not arguing against that (it is one of the very few movies you can find any dislikers for). I bring it up only because it gives a warm feeling of sorts that you would not get in many movies (let alone one about prison). That feeling does not come around often, and no other film about prison has passed that on to me since. Enter Sing Sing.

Tags Clint Bentley, Colman Domingo, Fear the Walking Dead, Greg Kwedar, Movie Reviews, Paul Raci, R, Rated R, Rustin, the color purple, The Shawshank Redemption

1 1/2 Stars Movies

Reagan (2024)

Let’s try something new here.

Rather than tell you that this movie is simply a bland, by the numbers bore fest that glamorizes our 40th president (at least Quaid is honestly trying to go for it), I present an alternative (this is one of the rare occasions when AI will help me in a review.)

Tags Dennis Quaid, Movie Reviews, PG-13, Rated PG-13, Reagan, Ronald Reagan