Category: Indie and vintage films
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Movie Review – The Irishman
Martin Scorsese worked on The Irishman for twelve years. The budget for the film kept increasing until no studio would touch it except Netflix. Scorsese’s last film, Silence, was critically acclaimed but a box office failure. And it got snubbed at the Oscars. So the question hanging over The Irishman is, “Is it any good?”…
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Top 5 Whodunnits in Film
After months of positive buzz, Rian Johnson’s mystery Knives Out is finally being released. It features an all-star cast with Daniel Craig playing the detective, and Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, and Jamie Lee Curtis among the suspects. In case this new release whets your appetite for a good mystery, here’s my list of top five…
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Golden Man’s Movie Review – Jojo Rabbit
Although I’m a fan of director Taika Waititi, the first trailer for Jojo Rabbit didn’t inspire much confidence. The scene of an imaginary Hitler comforting a ten-year-old boy fell pretty flat. Waititi isn’t the first person to mine World War II for laughs. Charlie Chaplin, Mel Brooks, and the TV show Hogan’s Heroes have made…
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Movie Review – The Lighthouse
It’s no secret I have issues with A24 productions. I have seen them all. I go in with an open mind — and every time but twice I’ve hated them. Spring Breakers and Tusk get a free pass; those entertained me. When I saw the trailers for The Lighthouse, I was excited. It looked…
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Preview Movie Review – Bad CGI Sharks
RunPee was fortunate enough to secure a screener movie to review during our infamous, annual Shark Binge (which consists of just me, but I do this every year in the summer until even I get sharked out.) Bad CGI Sharks is a strange beast (pun incidental). In spite of the “bad” name, the production values…
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Movie Review – The Dead Don’t Die
Dead Don’t Die as super low budget movie is somewhat cute, but nothing really good. Don’t see it in the theaters: its a good one to wait for streaming. Save your theater money now for the better movies. There was one cool idea — zombies are attracted to what interested them most while alive.…
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Movie Review – Tolkien – Biography of the Master of Middle Earth
I don’t normally watch biographies. We don’t usually get Peetimes for them either, but this was TOLKIEN. The author of my favorite novel, movie, and world: The Lord of the Rings. So it wasn’t just any biopic to me, and Tolkien wasn’t just any author. Lord of the Rings (or LOTR) is a magnificent 1000+…
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Highlights from the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
This year’s Sundance Film Festival recently concluded. [pullquote]The celebration of independent cinema has been going strong for 41 years[/pullquote]. Even though the Oscars for 2019 haven’t been handed out yet, the Oscar race for 2020 has officially begun. Past Oscar nominees and winners Little Miss Sunshine, Manchester By the Sea, and The Big Sick, among…
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Movie Review – Roma – Alfonso Cuaron and his Netflix Masterpiece
I decided to do a movie review of Roma for a couple of reasons. It’s not a widely-released in movie theaters in the US, and it will not be a part of the AMC Theaters Best Picture Showcase (#AMCBPS) despite being one of the eight nominated films for Best Picture. Why? From what I read,…
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RunPee and the 2019 Oscars – Predictions for the 2018 Movie Awards
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in Actor News, Animated, Blockbuster, DC, Director News, Drama, Geek stuff, Indie and vintage films, Limited release, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel not MCU, Movie Analysis, Movie awards, Movie News, Movie Opinions and Lists, Opinion, Remakes and Reboots, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels and Prequels, Soundtracks and Movie Music, Superheroes, ThrillerThe 2019 Oscar nominees will be announced on Tuesday, January 22. It has been a wild awards season full of uncertainty, surprises, upsets, and scandal. The nominations from the 2018 movies may bring their own share of upsets and surprises. Here are my predictions for what Tuesday morning will bring. (NOTE: All links go to…
