Outlaw King Impresses With Its Production Value But Underwhelms With Its Characters
The Hollywood epic was a common sight in the 1950’s and 1960’s as Hollywood tried…
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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
Articles:
The Hate U Give Is A Thoughtful Character Study Packed With Outstanding Performances
2018’s been a good year for the Young-Adult novel film adaptation subgenre, hasn’t it? It’s…
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Is In A Constant Battle Between Being Derivative And Being Weird
It is late in the evening. Rain comes down outside an office on the Disney…
Bohemian Rhapsody Makes The Rockin’ Box Office World Go Round As The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Has Nightmarish Bow
November 2018 is the first November since 2011 to not have either a James Bond,…
Don’t Stop Me Now Unless I’m Planning On Seeing Bohemian Rhapsody
Walk Hard so successfully and hysterically skewered the music biopic back in December 2007 that…
Halloween Slaughters The Box Office Again While Gerard Butler’s Submarine Movie Sinks
Before the holiday season box office officially gets underway, October 2018 closed out on a…
R.I.P. FilmStruck (November 2016-November 2018)
Because 2018 has to continue to be the garbage fire year to end all garbage…
Tickets For Halloween Sell As Well As A Silver Shamrock Mask Over Massive October Weekend
Halloween did not end up claiming the box office record for biggest October opening weekend…
The Future May Be Uncertain But At Least One Can Be Certain That Private Life Is Exquisite
The way Private Life depicts the day-to-day life of a married couple feels so quietly…
Venom Gobbles Up The Top Spot At The Box Office Again As First Man Has Underwhelming Launch And Goosebumps 2 Haunts Up OK Debut
This is not how anyone predicted this weekends box office would go. Going into this…