Tag Archives: Jon Hamm

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) Review

A LOVER LETTER TO THE FILM NOIR OF YESTERYEAR   While usually film directors are famed and well-known in the world of filmmaking, screenwriter Drew Goddard is starting to blossom into his own, living his personal “mark” on the industry on both the big and small screen of Hollywood endeavors. Beginning his career as a television writer for acclaimed TV

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Baby Driver (2017) Review

MOZART WITH A GO KART   Over the years, director Edgar Wright has produced some very unique and interesting feature films. Starting out as a director for several short-lived British TV series like Asylum, Mash and Peas, Is it Bill Bailey, Spaced, and a few others, Wright eventually graduated to directing theatrical films, beginning in 2004 with the movie Shaun

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Keeping Up With the Joneses Review

A SPY COMEDY DUD   Keeping Up with the Joneses” is an old saying (an idiom) that refers to the comparison to one’s neighbor social class or accumulation of material goods. If a person fails to “keep up with the joneses”, then that person is perceived (by his / her peers in society) as socio-ecomic or cultural inferiority. Now, playing

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Minions Review

ZANY MINION MISCHIEF AND THE OKAY PREQUEL FEATURE Back in 2010, the animated movie Despicable Me exploded into theaters, introducing viewers to the Minions. These tiny yellow gibberish child-like speaking henchmen were meant for sidebar moments of comic relief in the movie as the film’s narrative thread followed Gru, the lovable supervillian, and his recently adopted family. By the time

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