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Screener Squad: Colette
Justin and Davey continue exploring their new favorite genre to review together: lesbian historical biographies. This time, they’re exploring the life of famous French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, played here by Keira Knightley. Following her marriage to socialite and libertine Henry ‘Willy’ Gauthier-Villars, she is encouraged to write a novel as a means of expressing herself. Things get complicated, however, when
Eye on the Prize – Ep 15 – Let the 2018-19 Predictions Begin!
October is here and a number of major Oscar contenders are finally getting their wide releases. So it’s time once again to start making predictions for who will make it onto this year’s shortlists. Follow Davey and Justin as they go over some awards season news, have a lengthy discussion about the major foreign film contenders and, for the bulk
Screener Squad: Monsters and Men
The Screener Squad gets serious this time out as they cover Monsters and Men, the Sundance darling from director Reinaldo Marcus Green making his feature film debut. The story follows three lead characters (played by Anthony Ramos, John David Washington, and Kelvin Harrison Jr.) as they deal with a police shooting that affects their lives more than they could have imagined.
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Old Man & The Gun
Writer/director David Lowery (A Ghost Story, Pete’s Dragon) tells this tale based on the real story of Forrest Tucker, a career criminal but one with a special skill for escaping any cell they put him in, here played by Robert Redford. The story follows him, his new love interest (Sissy Spacek), the gang he puts together (Danny Glover and Tom
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Sisters Brothers
Eli and Charlie Sisters (John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix) are very different people but they are brothers and they do work together as assassins. It’s the old west and gold fever is high. Their boss (Rutger Hauer) assigns them a task: find Riz Ahmed who is a scientist who developed a formula to find gold, and do whatever it
Highly Suspect Reviews: A Star is Born
I don’t remember anyone putting this fourth version of “A Star is Born” on their must-see anticipated lists, but now that it’s out, everyone is going back to see it again and again. Which shouldn’t be a surprise, really. There’s something about this story of the experienced older musician taking the young ingenue under his belt until she eclipses him
