Category Archives: Previews

23
Apr

The Optimist’s Summer Movie Preview 2018

Marvel has thrown down the (Infinity) gauntlet, by moving their big tentpole to kick off the summer movie season back to the end of April. It traditionally started around Memorial Day, and moved up to the first weekend of May … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews | Tagged ant-man, avengers, deadpool, hereditary, incredibles, mission impossible, ocean's 8, sicario, solo, tully | Leave a comment

1
Apr

Streaming Picks: April 2018

FILMS Top Picks 50/50 – Hulu 4/1 Mystery Team – Amazon 4/1 The Florida Project – Amazon 4/1 (Academy Award nominee) Call me indecisive, but I just couldn’t pick between all these films, which I adore for different reasons. 50/50 … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 3 percent, 4th company, 50/50, 6 balloons, 78/52, aggretsuko, amateur, amo, augie, behind the curtain, bill nye, black sails, bobby kennedy for president, bosch, boss baby, call the midwife, candy jar, carmichael show, chalet, charite, chef's table, come sunday, crossing, dealt, despicable me 3, dina, dope, dude, fary, fastest car, florida project, greg davies, handmaid's tale, hilarity for charity, honeymoon stand-up special, i am not an easy man, into the night, jane the virgin, kevin james, kodachrome, la piloto, letdown, lost in space, loving vincent, lucas lauriente, magic school bus, mercury 13, merlin, missing, money heist, my next guest needs no introduction, mystery team, national treasure, new legends of monkey, orbiter 9, permanent, pickpockets, preacher, psychokinesis, ram dass, red rock, relationtrip, seth rogen, so b it, spy kids, take my nose please, thousand junkies, tiny shoulders, todrick hall, tragedy girls, troy, vikings, wakfu, week of | Leave a comment

2
Mar

Oscar Guide 2018

Guys, I just don’t know. With a real lack of consensus around this year’s crop of nominees, there’s no one film you can point to and say: “That’s the one to beat.” So what’s going to happen Sunday night? Sure, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged abacus, all the money in the world, beauty and the beast, big sick, blade runner 2049, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, dunkirk, faces places, fantastic woman, ferdinand, florida project, get out, greatest showman, guardians of the galaxy, i tonya, icarus, insult, kong skull island, lady bird, last men in aleppo, logan, loveless, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, mudbound, on body and soul, phantom thread, post, roman j israel esq, shape of water, square, star wars, strong island, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder | Leave a comment

1
Mar

Streaming Picks: March 2018

FILMS Top Pick Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Amazon and Hulu 3/1 One of the funniest comedies of the ’80s, with Steve Martin as a low-level American con artist learning the ropes from British sophisticate Michael Caine. But they meet their … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 21 thunder, adel karam, aftermath, aico incarnation, alexa and katie, almost friends, amazing world of gumball, angie tribeca, b the beginning, bad guys, benji, bitter harvest, blade of the immortal, borderliner, brad's status, bridge, closing gambit, collateral, color of magic, crooked house, departure, dinotrux, dirty rotten scoundrels, durrels in corfu, edha, eurotrump, first match, flames, flint town, food wars, gad elmaleh, game over man, ghoul, girl incarcerated, habit, happy anniversary, hard sun, human trafficking, ice mother, imperium, in search of fellini, infinite worlds of hg wells, jessica jones, kc undercover, ladies first, law and order special victims unit, law and order svu, layla m, legacy of a whitetail deer hunter, let there be light, little hours, love, love and saucers, malena pichot, march of the penguins 2, mechanism, miraculous, my next guest needs no introduction, nailed it, natalia valdebenito, nut job 2, odyssey, on my block, outsider, power rangers, project eden, rapture, reboot, remix, requiem, ricky gervais, roxanne roxanne, santa clarita diet, septiembre, series of unfortunate events, sneaky pete, sofia nino de rivera, son, spirit, square, standups, stretch armstrong, suitable girl, swordgai, tabula rasa, terrace house, thirst street, this old house, titan, tommy's honour, trailer park boys, trolls, trump, tunnel, valerian, veni vidi vici, voltron, wild wild country, wolf warrio 2, world's most extraordinary homes | Leave a comment

1
Feb

Streaming Picks: February 2018

FILMS Top Picks Manhunter – Amazon and Hulu 2/1 Mute – Netflix 2/23 The former is Michael Mann’s excellent adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon (aka the first time we saw Hannibal Lecter onscreen, played indelibly by Brian Cox). It’s easily … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged absentia, altered carbon, archer, atomic puppets, ballad of lefty brown, bates motel, beach rats, broad city, brockmire, cardinal, coach snoop, cougar town, deep undercover, derren brown, detroit, dirt, dragons, el vato, emoji movie, everwood, everything sucks, expanse, fate apocrypha, first team, forgotten, frankenstein chronicles, fred armisen, gary unmarried, good time, grand prix driver, greenhouse academy, human flow, imposters, irreplaceable you, jeepers creepers 3, joel mchale, kavin jay, logan lucky, long road home, looming tower, love per square foot, lucky, luna petunia, manhunter, marlon wayans, marseille, mozart in the jungle, mute, my next guest needs no introduction, nightcap, on body and soul, once upon a time, parenthood, perception, pjs, queer eye, remind, ritual, seeing allred, seven seconds, sin senos si hay paraiso, stinky and dirty, thunderbirds are go, tick, tom of finland, trader, ugly delicious, valor, villainess, when we first met, z nation | Leave a comment

19
Jan

Final Oscar Picks 2018

It’s been a crazy year in every regard, but especially in awards season. There’s really been no consensus on the best movie of the year from the critics’ groups or guilds. That’s kind of exciting, but makes this guesswork particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged baby driver, beauty and the beast, beguiled, big sick, blade runner 2049, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, chasing coral, city of ghosts, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, downsizing, dunkirk, fantastic woman, fifty shades of grey, florida project, foxtrot, get out, greatest showman, i tonya, icarus, in the fade, jane, lady bird, lego batman, loveless, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, mudbound, murder on the orient express, phantom thread, post, shape of water, star wars, strong island, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder, wound | Leave a comment

1
Jan

Streaming Picks: January 2018

While I’d focused on Netflix for the last two years, I figured it was high time I expanded my gaze, especially since they’re hardly the only game in town. I’m still being judicious with my selections. Gone are the endless … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged adventures of puss in boots, alejandro riano, amazon, arango y sanint, before i wake, beyond berlin, cars 3, colony, comedians in cars getting coffee, detroit, devilman crybaby, dirty money, disjointed, doctor who, drug lords, el ministerio del tiempo, electric dreams, episodes, fear the walking dead, futile and stupid gesture, ghost story, glace, godfather, grace and frankie, grantchester, grimm, hulu, ingrid goes west, just add magic, kavin jay, llama llama, lovesick, mau nieto, netflix, one day at a time, open house, path, polka king, retribution, ricardo quevedo, rose parade, rotten, sebastian marcelo, somebody feed phil, tiempos de guerra, todd glass, tom segura, trolls, uncle grandpa | Leave a comment

15
Dec

Oscar Picks: 15 Dec 2017

BEST PICTURE Call Me by Your Name Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Falling off: Darkest Hour Rising star: The Florida Project The skinny: I’m very confident in … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged beguiled, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, downsizing, dunkirk, florida project, get out, lady bird, lego batman, loving vincent, molly's game, mudbound, phantom thread, post, shape of water, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul | Leave a comment

1
Dec

Netflix Picks: December 2017

A programming note: This will be the final appearance of this column, as I plan to focus on a wider variety of streaming options beginning in 2018. TOP PICK – FILM Bright – 12/22 David Ayer has been hit or … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews, Television | Tagged 72 dangerous animals, ainsley eats the streets, all hail king julien, bill nye, bill nye saves the world, bright, cable girls, chef, christmas inheritance, climb, craig ferguson, crown, dave chappelle, dope, easy, el camino christmas, erased, fuller house, halt and catch fire, hello my twenties, home, indian detective, judd apatow, la casa de papel, la mante, las chicas del cable, magicians, my happy family, myths and monsters, peaky blinders, ranch, russell howard, storybots, todd barry, toys that made us, travelers, trollhunters, turn, ultimate beastmaster, voyeur, when calls the heart, wormwood | Leave a comment

15
Nov

Oscar Picks: 15 Nov 2017

BEST PICTURE Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Falling off: The Greatest Showman, Last Flag Flying, Murder on the Orient Express, Wonderstruck Rising star: The … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged all the money in the world, beguiled, big sick, boss baby, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, despicable me 3, disaster artist, dunkirk, florida project, get out, greatest showman, i tonya, lady bird, lego batman, loving vincent, molly's game, mudbound, murder on the orient express, novitiate, phantom thread, post, shape of water, stronger, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul | Leave a comment