For the second year in a row, I have been lucky enough to be able to watch all ten best picture nominees before the actual awards night. This year was even easier, as I had seen seven of the nominees even before nominees were announced, this year through a combination of keeping an eye on…
Thanks to a combination of seeing two of these last year, a variety of streaming services, cheap showings at local movie theaters, and Oscar Week at the main theater I go to, I was able to do something I have never done before: view all this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. I feel…
It's time to wrap up my review of new releases from 2021. Below is my Top 20ish (this will make sense in about 4 movies!) movies of the year, and, if you want to read a bunch of nice things about the other movies I watched last year, you can check out my Be Kind…
As timely as ever, it is time for me to wrap up the new releases I was able to watch in 2021. As always, while I obviously don't mind praising the movies I enjoyed the most from the year, I do not like ragging on the movies I liked the least. Even if a movie…
Finding the drive to write about movies has been hard for me lately. Between work and caring for my nearly two-year-old (!) son, I just have not really felt the urge to put fingers-to-keys in order to write about *checks notes* The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It. However, over the last few…
This was a weird year for movies, as I was only able to see two of these movies in an actual movie theater and with me only spending a collective, like, $50 or $60 on these in total (not including subscriptions to streaming services in which case I spent way more than that, but you…
Hello, everyone! I know that it has been a very long time since I have written, but 2020 has obviously been...odd, to say the least, and writing hasn't been a top priority for any number of reasons. That said, I do want to get back into it, even if only for a couple quick summary…
I could spend a lot of time trying to explain why I didn't write this before the back half of 2020, or what made me all of a sudden decide that the back half of 2020 was the time to write this. Or I could just say "everything's bad. Here are my favorite movies from…
Although its universe will continue, thanks to additional films by Rian Johnson, in addition to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Cassian Andor (two characters of similar clout) TV shows on TheMouse+, the decades-spanning Skywalker saga is coming to an apparent close on December 20. In preparation, I watched each film in the franchise (including the non-episodic anthology…
Last October, I wrote about Drew Goddard's Bad Times at the El Royale, his second film in the director's chair. In it, I explain how the film has Quentin Tarantino's DNA all over it, with some of the less ideal qualities removed.. Most notably, Goddard's script does not rely on using the n-word to portray the…
TJ At The Movies 