Mean Streets
Scorsese’s third film, Mean Streets, is the spiritual sequel to his directing debut, Who’s That Knocking at My Door, both in terms of themes and its star, Harvey Keitel. This is the first time...
Author: Nick Johnson
Self Reliance
Self Reliance is the directorial debut of New Girl alum Jake Johnson. It takes the thriller genre and throws it in a blender with a comedy. I’m struggling to think of anything I’ve seen...
Boxcar Bertha
Based on the strength of his first film, Martin Scorsese was hired by producer Roger Corman to direct his next project, Boxcar Bertha, the story of a southern girl turned criminal who goes on...
Society of the Snow
Society of the Snow is a recent depiction of the 1972 plane crash involving an Uruguayan rugby team and their subsequent fight for survival in the snow-ridden Andes mountains of South America. Their story...
Who’s That Knocking at My Door
Andddddd we’re back! Welcome to my highly anticipated (at least in my own head) series where I’ll be reviewing all 26 of Martin Scorsese’s feature films in chronological order. I’ve had a great time...
Maestro
Maestro is the true story of Leonard Bernstein and his relationship with love and music. I found it to be more about love than music, personally. I’ve seen a lot of hate for this...
The Biggys – A Kathryn Bigelow Retrospective
Now that I’ve made my way through Bigelow’s entire filmography, I felt like it would be fun to honor the tradition I started with M Night Shymalan and hold an award show celebrating the...
It’s a Wonderful Life
I know, I know. It’s not a “modern” movie. But in the spirit of the holiday season, I thought my first ever viewing of this classic film warranted a writeup. It’s a Wonderful Life...
Detroit
This was a mixed bag of a film. It starts out extraordinarily slow. It cuts between various characters experiencing a riot in Detroit in 1967 – until they all come together and all hell...
Leave the World Behind
Leave the World Behind is a psychological thriller film starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawk, and Mahershala Ali. It was directed by Sam Esmail (the mind behind one of my favorite shows, Mr. Robot) and...
