Dolemite is My Name
The Lighthouse
The movie is yet another story of mental illness, but in a different way than Joker. Robert is a man looking for work. He comes to The Lighthouse and works for Williem Dafoe. When a storm hits the lighthouse they both descend into madness trying to survive. Williem commands the screen when he's on, but Robert carries this movie 100%. And what's crazy is it's just the two of them.
Crazy this is a movie from the director of that AWFUL movie "The Witch" because this movie is 5 stars across the board. AND it's shot in black and white. Robert Eggers made up for TW in my book. WOW! Definitely a must see movie.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
In this sequel Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) is invited to Prince Phillip (recast Harrison Dickinson)'s home for dinner after proposing to Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) to meet his parents, since Maleficent is essentially Aurora's mother. Prince Philip's father King John (Robert Lindsay) is looking forward to Princess Aurora, also Queen of the Moors, to settle peace with humans and Moors. But Queen Ingris (Michelle Pfeiffer) wants nothing to do with the union in fact, she believes all the stories of Maleficent's evil ways. Added to the story are Ed Skrein and Chiwetel Ejiofor, but I won't spoil how they fit in.
And so begins an epic tale of good versus evil, but not everything is what it seems. Angelina SHINES once again. And Michelle is MAGICAL (no pun intended)!
I love the cinematography. So much color and beauty in this movie. Worth seeing on the big screen.
Jexi
Premise is simple: Guy who is addicted to his phone gets a new phone with defected software that ends up stalking him. Morale of the story: we are on our phones so much it's replaced human interaction and our ability to enjoy our surroundings.
Great movie!!! Hollywood needs to cast him in more roles...ps he's not only funny but cute as a button. I love him in interviews too.
Gemini Man
Night Hunter
Joker
100% a 5 stars out of 5 movie and WILL win Joaquin Phoenix his first Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar as well as nominations in Best Original Screenplay, Best Costumes, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Frances Conroy and more. This is in my opinion the greatest super-villain comic book film of all-time, and quite frankly the most disturbing film I have ever seen. Keep reading...
"Joker" isn't the typical comic book film. Todd Phillips (Director of "The Hangover" series) came up with this as a one-picture standalone film to explain how the Joker became the Joker. He's not Jack Napier from Jack Nicholson's "Batman" nor Heath Ledger's from "The Dark Knight" nor Jared Leto's from "Suicide Squad." He's closer to Mark Hamil's from "Batman: The Animated Series," but even that's not exact. Joaquin IS Joker end of story.
His name is Arthur Fleck. Back in the mid-to-late 70's Arthur is a hired clown who gets beat up by strangers, fired for getting beat up, and lives with his ailing mother in a dingy two bedroom Gotham city apartment. Every day he checks the mail from a letter his mother sent to Thomas Wayne, her former employer. "Thomas will help us." She says, and he believes her. Gradually one HORRIBLE (not even bad) thing happens after another to Arthur. And you see the cracks of Joker start to pull Arthur apart and push him back together. By the end of the film you 100% can understand NOT AGREE with how ANYONE broken down by the system, society, and the people around them can go completely insane.
And this is why this movie is truly terrifying to me. After the movie I was driving home like WOW if I wasn't as strong of a person as I am, I too could be Joker. I too could let the things in my life break my spirit. This movie is almost a cautionary tale. It's insane.
My hopes is this film starts Joaquin's Joker into the DCU. It explains why Batman is casted so much younger. If this Joker encounters Robert Pattinson's Batman/Bruce Wayne I will 100% believe it.
I loved this film, but it messed me. I couldn't see it again. But bravo to Robert DeNiro and Zazie Beets for their supporting roles as well. Worth seeing once through though. Just be prepared to be blown away.
The Politician
So I will give this a 4 out of 5 stars. Keep reading...
"The Politician" is a high school dramedy about adopted rich kid Payton (Daytime Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner Ben Platt) who's dating a pretty vapid girl named McAfee (Laura Dreyfuss) and running for Class President. He wants to make his resume look good for when he graduates. And so ensue the crazy. His opponent is hot jock River (scene stealer and Henry Cavill lookalike David Corenset), whom Payton is secretly in love with and who's also dating Payton's archnemesis Astrid (Lucy Boynton). Added to the cast are Payton's hippie mom (Gwyneth Paltrow), Payton's adoptive twin brothers (Ken Dolls with Patrick Bateman personalities Trey & Trevor Mahlon Eason), Astrid's parents (Dylan McDermott & January Jones), cancer ridden Infinity (Zoey Deutsch) and her grandmother Dusty (Jessica Lange), and one of my fave new actors Benjamin Barrett as Infinity's dim-witted but not so dumb boyfriend Ricardo.
"The Politician" is a high school dramedy about adopted rich kid Payton (Daytime Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner Ben Platt) who's dating a pretty vapid girl named McAfee (Laura Dreyfuss) and running for Class President. He wants to make his resume look good for when he graduates. And so ensue the crazy. His opponent is hot jock River (scene stealer and Henry Cavill lookalike David Corenset), whom Payton is secretly in love with and who's also dating Payton's archnemesis Astrid (Lucy Boynton). Added to the cast are Payton's hippie mom (Gwyneth Paltrow), Payton's adoptive twin brothers (Ken Dolls with Patrick Bateman personalities Trey & Trevor Mahlon Eason), Astrid's parents (Dylan McDermott & January Jones), cancer ridden Infinity (Zoey Deutsch) and her grandmother Dusty (Jessica Lange), and one of my fave new actors Benjamin Barrett as Infinity's dim-witted but not so dumb boyfriend Ricardo.
Think "Election" meets "Glee" meets "Heathers."
The thing I HATE about the show is Payton's sexuality. It's OBVIOUS he isn't bisexual like River. He's gay. And he does something in the very last episode that's SOOOOOOOOO selfish knowing the character is clearly gay that angered me. Dear Ryan, we've seen a clearly gay character be selfish in one of your shows (Kurt Hummel leading on Mercedes in "Glee"), so this part deux is unoriginal and VERY annoying especially that last episode.
ALOT happens in 8 episodes and everyone talks super fast. The last episode was basically an epilogue for next season which I kinda have a clue where it'll go. Tiny bit of a stretch. The thing I don't love about Ryan Murphy projects is he doesn't know how to let go of characters. There is one character in next season that makes NO SENSE! Without giving away spoilers. Cannot wait to see Judith Light and Bette Midler's characters evolve next season along with Teddy Sears and Joe Morton.
Yes it's a Ryan Murphy creation. And overall it's good. But it legit took me two days to write this because SO MUCH happened so quickly. Maybe binging Ryan Murphy projects isn't the way to go. He NEVER wastes a scene in his storytelling. So watching all at once gave me sensory overload.
Still better than most of the crap out there though. And the thing I love about Ryan is he sees potential in people. Did you ever think the awkward bird kid Ben Platt from "Pitch Perfect" would be an award winning actor leading a dramedy by Ryan Murphy? Did you ever think a pretty male actor David Corenset would make your heart break into a billion pieces? What about seeing Gwyneth Paltrow as anything other than playing America's Sweetheart characters? And I won't ruin Jessica Lange's character but just WOW! The entire cast deserves Emmy nominations. And thank you to Ryan for hiring transman Theo Germaine who's soooooo good!
In future episodes if he can just slow down the dialogue that'd be great. Felt like I was watching "Scandal" part 2.
The thing I HATE about the show is Payton's sexuality. It's OBVIOUS he isn't bisexual like River. He's gay. And he does something in the very last episode that's SOOOOOOOOO selfish knowing the character is clearly gay that angered me. Dear Ryan, we've seen a clearly gay character be selfish in one of your shows (Kurt Hummel leading on Mercedes in "Glee"), so this part deux is unoriginal and VERY annoying especially that last episode.
ALOT happens in 8 episodes and everyone talks super fast. The last episode was basically an epilogue for next season which I kinda have a clue where it'll go. Tiny bit of a stretch. The thing I don't love about Ryan Murphy projects is he doesn't know how to let go of characters. There is one character in next season that makes NO SENSE! Without giving away spoilers. Cannot wait to see Judith Light and Bette Midler's characters evolve next season along with Teddy Sears and Joe Morton.
Yes it's a Ryan Murphy creation. And overall it's good. But it legit took me two days to write this because SO MUCH happened so quickly. Maybe binging Ryan Murphy projects isn't the way to go. He NEVER wastes a scene in his storytelling. So watching all at once gave me sensory overload.
Still better than most of the crap out there though. And the thing I love about Ryan is he sees potential in people. Did you ever think the awkward bird kid Ben Platt from "Pitch Perfect" would be an award winning actor leading a dramedy by Ryan Murphy? Did you ever think a pretty male actor David Corenset would make your heart break into a billion pieces? What about seeing Gwyneth Paltrow as anything other than playing America's Sweetheart characters? And I won't ruin Jessica Lange's character but just WOW! The entire cast deserves Emmy nominations. And thank you to Ryan for hiring transman Theo Germaine who's soooooo good!
In future episodes if he can just slow down the dialogue that'd be great. Felt like I was watching "Scandal" part 2.
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