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Disclaimer – As a single person, I have never wanted the bad guy to succeed as much as I did in this movie. The year is 1996, a horror film enters the zeitgeist. The film is one of the first mainstream meta films. It is a horror film, commenting about horror films, using horror film…

A recurring trope in movies is that autism is like a superpower. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man was an early example of this. Ben Affleck was a better killer for it in The Accountant. 2018’s The Predator had a young boy with autism, Rory Mckenna (Jacob Tremblay) be able to decipher and understand an alien language in minutes. The problem with…

Griff is the best, more on that later. Death of a Unicorn (Dir Alex Scharfman – Resurrection, Blow the Man Down) is a film about lawyer Elliot Kitner (Paul Rudd – Ant-Man, Clueless, This is 40) and his daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega – Scream VI, Wednesday) as they go to corporate retreat to discuss Elliot’s future role in…

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes, or so the saying goes by Mark Twain. We find ourselves in an interesting time full of economic uncertainty, rising inequality, and atrocities happening overseas and we ask ourselves, it couldn’t possibly happen again? Could it? I’m Still Here (dir. Walter Salles) reveals one of these moments in…

The Civil Rights Activist and Congressman, John Lewis, talked about getting into ‘good trouble’. The idea was that to make meaningful change, it would require disruption, confrontation, and a willingness to challenge unjust systems.Now the Deadpool movies aren’t nearly as important as the Civil Rights movements but let me explain.The star of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds,…

Same, Same, But Different is used for lots of ideas; be it a business idea or a story idea. The principle is that you have something familiar to hold onto and then a new or interesting take on the original proposal. Lots of films have been pitched as Die Hard but on a … Boat/Plane/Train;…

We all have trauma, some of it small t trauma and some of it big T trauma. What we do about the trauma, big or small affects how we live and engage with the people in our lives. Instead of dealing with the trauma, which can be difficult, many people engage in activities like sex,…

There has been a torrent of modern music biopics.  They all start off the same way, the artist stands facing away as the camera pulls back to reveal they are backstage at a massive event. They start to move up onto the stage and the film cuts back to their childhood and you learn their…