Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
Someone called this ‘Goodfellas for the ice skating world’. That’s actually, pretty accurate. Beyond the blond bombshell stuff, I knew Margot Robbie could actually act. So I wasn’t shocked to see how well she took to the accent and (I don’t even know if this is the best way to phrase this) ‘toned down’ […]
At least as far as the acting awards go, the frontrunner for a lot of Oscars is still ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’. Out of what I’ve seen so far, this one isn’t as showy (visually) as ‘The Shape of Water’ but I found myself more engaged story wise. The setup: when a young […]
It’s exciting (and a little sad) to think of how much good territory there still is to cover in genre films, simply by seeing these stories through the eyes of different storytellers (and by extension, different protagonists.) I personally feel ‘Get Out’/horror was the best example this awards season, but ‘Lady Bird’/coming of age […]
I get it. I get why this is the frontrunner. ‘The Shape of Water’ checks off so many boxes, even to a film geek like me. Non traditional love story? Check. Feels super original in the land of remaking everything? Check. Non verbal lead character? Check. Character actors who character actors worship (Michael Shannon […]
Editor’s Note first: now that we know what’s what, my feelings are the Oscar nominated films I haven’t touched yet will start up again Sunday night. My reaction looking over the nominations this morning: there are some definite frontrunners (mostly in the acting categories), but I really don’t know who’s winning Best Picture. More […]
The weekend! I didn’t realize til this morning the Oscars nominations come out Tuesday, so we’ll take a few days off from the movie reviews and see how that falls. In the meantime, something upbeat to start the weekend. And I miss Heavy D. Have a good one gang!
Kind of a sad film, but another child star is born. ‘The Florida Project’ is set in Orlando, but this is the city that has nothing to do with Disney World. (A concept I love; I just had a conversation with a friend about what life could possibly be like for people who live […]
I wish I could watch this movie in a vacuum. But I can’t so… Alexander Payne’s farcical pitch here is still great: a group of scientists figure out how to safely shrink living organisms, which in theory could instantly solve so many of the problems humanity has brought onto this planet. Of course, as […]
If you’ve lived in LA for any period of time, you’ve seen the billboard. You may have even gone to one of the midnight screenings of ‘the Room’ (I admit at this point I still haven’t seen it, but I’m familiar with the ‘making of’ story, as most film geeks are. As now Golden […]
When you have the catalog of Denzel, they won’t all be Hall of Famers. That’s my takeaway from ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ Denzel follows up ‘Fences’ (and the Oscar loss to Casey Affleck) with this character study about an attorney who’s out of step with his times. Throwing out his cool trademarks (and removing […]
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