Green Book is Worth the Trip
February 8, 2019An elite black pianist tours the segregated south with a white roughneck chauffeur. Green Book combines two crowd-pleasing formulas—the road movie and the true story—with two stellar lead actors, Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. Mortensen plays Tony Lip, a white, working class second-generation Italian-American from the Bronx who works as a nightclub bouncer. Ali plays
Green Book is Worth the Trip
January 14, 2019The film’s title is derived from a guide of establishments that blacks traveling in the Deep South were allowed to patronize.
The Grinch Reinvented
December 31, 2018The Grinch is a 2018 update of the holiday classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Suspiria—The Trailer is Hot, the Movie is Not
November 30, 2018Unfortunately, when bad computer generated imagery gimmicks and an absurd subplot immerge, everything goes downhill. See Suspiria 2018, and then see the original.
Moore Takes Aim at Both Parties in Fahrenheit 11/9
October 31, 2018Flint’s story is essential to the film because it illustrates the power of greed and why corporate money has no place in government. Macroeconomics 101 tells us that corporations are beholden to one thing—their stockholders. Humans do not enter into this equation. How can you have a democracy for the people when corporate money runs the government? You can’t.