Tag: Charles Melton

Warfare (2025)

There is a moment in the classic Citizen Kane where elderly Jed Leland (Joseph Cotten) says to the young reporter “I remember everything. That’s the greatest curse ever inflicted on the human race: memory.”

This quote ran through my head not long after the opening of Warfare, which tells us that what we are about to see is not based on any documented story so much as it is the memories of those who engaged in it. It won’t take long to have you agree with the idea of memory being a curse after the events unfold in the film.

Tags 2025, Alex Garland, Charles Melton, Civil War, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Michael Gandolfini, Noah Centineo, R, Rated R, Ray Mendoza, Taylor John Smith, Warfare, Will Poulter

4 1/2 Stars Movies

May December (2023)

There is not as much shame as there used to be when I would admit to going into a movie thinking it was bad and it ends up being good (or vice versa).

I had more of a “mistaken identity” when watching May December. I’m not sure where I read it (or where I thought I did) but I went into the film thinking that the two main actresses, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, were a married couple. Regardless of how I came to this false conclusion, it is not the case the new film by Todd Haynes, but that does not at all take away from the true film, with one of the more unique and admittedly disturbing premises in recent memory.

Tags 2023, Charles Melton, Dark Comedy, Drama, Julianne Moore, May December, Movie Review, Mr. Holland's Opus, Natalie Portman, Netflix, Rated R, Richard Dreyfuss, Todd Haynes