Portrait of a Lady on Fire Blazes Bright With A Richly-Realized Romance
When Ava DuVernay saw The Irishman, she tweeted out a euphoric response to this Martin…
NerdInTheBasement
NerdInTheBasement (A.K.A. Douglas Laman) is a man of cinema, pure and simple. He loves good music, good food, good friends and the vocals of Idina Menzel. He does movie reviews, news pieces, editorials, occasional TV coverage and is well-known for writing like he's running out of time. Douglas Laman also has a Patreon, where you can donate to support his crippling movie-watching habit: https://www.patreon.com/DouglasLaman
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Doug’s Cinematic Firsties: Todd Haynes Solidifed Himself As The GOAT of 1950’s Period Pieces With Far From Heaven
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties is a recurring series wherein Douglas Laman (A.K.A. NerdInTheBasement) will review a…
Sonic the Hedgehog Goes Fast But Rarely Goes Anywhere Interesting
Sonic the Hedgehog is trapped between two influences. In one corner, we have the late-90’s/mid-2000’s…
The Director of Spotlight Delivers a Solid Family Movie With Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Tom McCarthy has had quite an eclectic career as a director and a writer. For…
The DCEU Trades Grim n’ Gritty For Glittery n’ Grisly With The Delightfully Madcap Birds of Prey
Gosh, it’s always tough to grapple with a break-up. But it’s especially difficult when the…
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties: Fall In Love With Brief Encounter’s Unique Take on Cinematic Love
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties is a recurring series wherein Douglas Laman (A.K.A. NerdInTheBasement) will review a…
Jezebel Eschews Stereotypes In Favor of Specifically-Rendered Characters
Like many populations, people who work in the sex work industry have not had received…
Bad Boys For Life Delivers Diverting Debauchery
Seventeen years after Bad Boys II, those boys are back in town (how was that…
Frozen II Delivers Good Musical Numbers But Its Script Is Too Dense For Its Own Good
Doing Frozen II was an inevitability. Disney is a franchise-minded studio, the first one made…
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties: Almost Famous Looks At Rock Stars and Finds Human Beings
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties is a recurring series wherein Douglas Laman (A.K.A. NerdInTheBasement) will review a…