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What Lisa Watched Last Night #90: Hostages Episode 1 “Pilot”
Last night, after I got back from dance class, I watched the first episode of the new CBS series, Hostages. Why Was I Watching It? I spent the last three months watching and reviewing Big Brother for...
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Shattered Politics #61: Murder at 1600 (dir by Dwight H. Little)
Wow. I have to admit that, seeing as how I was only 11 going on 12 back in 1997, I really wasn’t paying much attention to what was going on in the world at the time. But, whatever it was, it must have...
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Shattered Politics #76: Good Night, and Good Luck (dir by George Clooney)
One of my favorite episodes of South Park is called Smug Alert! As you may remember, this is the episode where the citizens of South Park all buy hybrid cars and end up getting so self-satisfied that...
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Back to School Part II #18: Not My Kid (dir by Michael Tuchner)
Not My Kid, a made-for-television from 1985, opens with 15 year-old Susan Bower (Viveka Davis) in a car with her friends. They’re drunk. They’re stoned. They’re laughing. And soon, they’re...
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Playing Catch-Up With The Films of 2016: Elvis & Nixon (dir by Liza Johnson)
When you think of actors who you could cast in a biopic of Elvis Presley, Michael Shannon is probably not the first actor who comes to mind. And yet that’s just what the people behind Elvis &...
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Playing Catch-Up: Manchester By The Sea (dir by Kenneth Lonergan)
Manchester By The Sea is the latest Oscar contender to be set in Massachusetts. I’m not exactly sure why but it appears that if you want your film to get some sort of Oscar consideration, it’s always...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Upside (dir by Neil Burger)
There’s a lot of opera in The Upside. That, in itself, is not a surprise. The Upside is about a wealthy, emotionally repressed white man and, if there’s anything we’ve learned from the movies, it’s...
View ArticleFilm Review: Worth (dir by Sara Colangelo)
How much is one life worth? That’s the question that is asked in a film that’s appropriately titled Worth. Based on a true story, Worth centers around Kenneth D. Feinberg. Played by Michael Keaton,...
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