Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 18 minutesDirector: Todd Phillips Quick Impressions:Remember back when it was fun to be a Batman villain? Watching various film and TV projects, I always came away with the sense that in Gotham, the villains emerged from their confining origins like a butterfly bursting from its chrysalis. …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 38 minutes Director: Ridley ScottWriter: David Scarpa Quick Impressions:I’ve been so excited to see this movie, for one reason and one reason only. In the trailer, we see a lot of Napoleon in Egypt, and for twenty-six years, I’ve delighted in a long-standing running joke …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 59 minutes Director: Ari Aster Quick Impressions: What a movie! We’d only been watching about ten minutes. Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) had just lost his keys and was on the phone with his mom. Suddenly, he asked, “Mom?” Then with a loud scritch, the screen went …
Best Picture: #73 Original Release Date: May 5, 2000 Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 35 minutes Director: Ridley Scott Quick Impressions:While we were watching our favorite scene in Gladiator (in which Falco ever-so-slowly tells Commodus about the wiles of a certain sea snake), my daughter exclaimed in shock, “You know, …
