Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes Director: Mike Mitchell Quick Impressions: I can’t believe it’s been five years since the first Lego Movie. To be honest, when the sequel began with a flashback followed by the segue, “Five years later,” I thought that was just a convenient gap for …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Director: Joe Penna Quick Impressions:Mads Mikkelsen is so cool, especially when he’s in the Arctic Circle fighting off a polar bear. (Sometimes I think I’m drawn to Mikkelsen just because I love his awesome alliterative name. He should do a movie with Stellan Skarsgård, …
Green Book Nominated Producer(s): Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga Director: Peter Farrelly Writer: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Frank Vallelonga, Nick Vallelonga, Ninja Devoe, and others. Plot: In the early 1960s, night club bouncer Tony …
Black Panther Nominated Producer: Kevin FeigeDirector: Ryan CooglerWriter: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, Andy Serkis, Sterling K. Brown, Winston Duke, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, John Kani, Florence Kasumba, Forest Whitaker, Michael B. Jordan, and others Plot: Wakanda forever! (That’s …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Director: Robert Rodriguez Quick Impressions:“Look on the bright side, at least your tears are working.” When I heard that line (perfectly delivered by Christoph Waltz), I decided, “Okay, this movie is beginning well. Maybe it actually has something to say.” But then almost …
Mahershala AliAge: 44 (45 on February 16th)Film: Green BookRole: Dr. Don Shirley, a renowned African American concert pianist who plans leave New York and go on tour in several states in the early 1960s. Since many of his performances will be in the Deep South, Dr. Shirley needs a driver/body …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 38 minutesDirector: Jon S. Baird Quick Impressions:I’m an Oscar enthusiast, but we’ve reached that magical time of year (February, I guess) when I can’t wait to buy all the nominated films on Blu-ray just so I can hurl them through the nearest window and be done …
Yalitza Aparicio Age: 25 Film: Roma Role: Cleo, a young domestic servant who never fails to complete her mundane daily chores as she navigates complex emotions arising from her unplanned pregnancy and the crisis facing the family that employs (and cares for) her. Cleo is the fictive incarnation of Libo, …
Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hoursDirector: Joe Cornish Quick Impressions:When I first saw the theatrical trailer for this movie, I was sold. A guy sneezes into bird form and flies away?!! Some present day British school boys finds Excalibur and fight Morgana?!! Merlin hides out as a teen who works in a …
Christian BaleAge: 45Film: ViceRole: Dick Cheney, unorthodox Vice President of the United States who does dark and terrible things to keep America safe and lives largely for his wife’s approval (and also because he has a donor heart). Nomination History:Won Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2011 for The Fighter (2010). …
