Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
Just through a coincidence, I watched ‘the Dark Knight’ last night. Bias aside, still my favorite ‘film featuring characters who started in comic books.’ But ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ might be the best ‘comic book movie’ ever. A few non spoiling thoughts… I was rolling over in my head the last time I sat in […]
I understand (kind of) that Netflix can’t promote the living heck out of every single project they put up. I kept hearing about ‘On My Block’ by word of mouth, and I was only two episodes in before I started telling people around me, ‘You need to get involved with this,’ and now that […]
‘Andre the Giant’ is not one of the all time great sport docs (that’s become an increasingly hard club to break into the past ten years), but it’s a necessary watch for wrestling fans. Featuring a ton of new footage and the approval of the WWE, the doc does well telling the story of […]
Do not let it be said we’re anywhere close to running out of fresh angles for genre stories… At its core, ‘First Match’ is a coming of age story. But here are just a few of the ‘not worn out’ touches… a) the protagonist is a young black girl b) she tries to bond […]
Even for someone like me who’s more or less the same age as hip hop, it’s hard now to imagine the early days, when even people who saw money couldn’t imagine millions of dollars. When it was a neighborhood thing and not a worldwide culture. ‘Roxanne Roxanne’ does an excellent job of reminding you […]
The new Ricky Gervais stand up on Netflix is interesting to me because, it’s really three shorter sets edited together… In the first set, he’s basically doing his David Brent, ‘oblivious asshole’ character to poke fun at the Kardashians (well just one really) and how his own celebrity and wealth have left him ‘out […]
Here are this year’s nominees for Best Picture: Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Who I’m Cheering For: Come on… Who Should Win: Last year (I think) established unless you have ‘Titantic’, nobody really knows until the […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie – I, Tonya Saorise Ronan – Lady Bird Meryl Streep – The Post Who I’m Cheering For: I don’t know if anyone here completely ‘doesn’t belong’ this […]
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