Movie Review: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (Review #2)

Nocturnal Animals is the second, and latest, feature by acclaimed couturier turned director Tom Ford. The film tells the story of a woman named Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) as she gets a mysterious manuscript of a novel written by her ex-husband. The narrative of the story switches between Susan reading the novel and the events of the novel which intertwine in interesting ways to create a fulfilling narrative overall. The film stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isla Fisher, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Karl Glusman, and Armie Hammer.

Movie Review: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

It's confusing that an original indie movie shot over 40 days for 18M is a better Superman movie than any $200M Superman movie WB has made in the last 15 or so years.

If we’re going to discuss Midnight Special I feel it’s important to bring up the current slew of superhero films coming out today. No, I’m not a part of the super right wing superhero fatigue camp, nor on the ultra-left-wing “we live or die by the capes” side of things. I just like new inventive movies. I bring these movies up because it says something about the kind of era we’re stepping into now. Since around the 1970s with the original Star Wars and Jaws we went into the era of the Blockbuster. Films that follow certain conventions, please many audiences and take us through grand stories in an inventive way. We’re still in that era of course (I mean I just saw The Jungle Book like two weeks ago), but the Blockbuster era is slightly changing.