The Speakeasies (or The Year in Movies according to Yours Truly) 2017

In which yours truly does the nominating, voting, and presenting.

There's also a Best of 2017 List at the end. 

Devouring the Oscars--Actor in a Leading Role

So, who will join the men who came before in the most coveted of acting awards? That's the question offered to me by the great people over at The LAMB. This year's nominees are all, first, perfectly cast, brought in and allowed to shine as full collaborators in the passions of some of our finest filmmakers, even if one of them didn't quite work itself out as a great film.

The most wonderful time of the year...(Part 2)

On the abundance of great movies afforded me by Winter Break

The most wonderful time of the year...(Part 1)

On the abundance of great movies afforded me by Winter Break (and Movie Pass)

Ebbing begets flowing

On the ebbs and flows of Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri"

It's like coming home...

On the soul of Greta Gerwig's crowd-pleasing "Lady Bird"

Old, New, and (New and Selected)

Thoughts on Storytelling, "Blade Runner 2049", and "The Meyerowitz Stories"

Movie Month: September 2017

The Media I've Consumed

September 2017

The State of the Horror Address

Thought on the Horrors of September, "IT: Chapter One," and Aronofsky's "mother!"

And I've never felt that way before.

A Brief Reaction to "A Ghost Story"

Country Roads to Nowhere

A Review of Steven Soderbergh's "Logan Lucky" 

Any (Large) Screen Will Do

Thoughts On Film Projection and a Review of Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk"

Not What You Wish For

A Review of the new romantic comedy/drama The Big Sick.

Come Back, Will Ferrell

A Review of the new Will Ferrell comedy The House

The Anti-Damsels-in-Distress

A Review of Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled

Movie Month: June 2017

Baby Driver

"Your name's Baby? B-A-B-Y baby?" 

A line spoken by Debora, played by the young English actress Lily James, 

doing the cutest damn little Southern accent imaginable.