Movie Reviews

Who was that brave dumbass that said, "Hey, what if this was Shrek 2, but then it turned into season 8 of Game of Thrones while also making it an introduction to the concept of genocide for kids?”

Rendy JonesOctober 18, 2019Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Sequel, Disney

Zombieland: Double Tap Review

10 years since the predecessor and this is what you came up with?

Rendy JonesOctober 16, 2019Zombieland: Double Tap, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone, Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Sequel, Horror

Gemini Man Review

If there’s anything favorable I feel about this movie it's that they filmed a scene at my college!

Rendy JonesOctober 16, 2019Gemini Man, Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong

Motherless Brooklyn Review

NYFF 2019, TIFF 2019Rendy JonesOctober 15, 2019Motherless Brooklyn, Book Adaptation, Crime, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe

Jexi Review

A 2019 comedy from the writers who brought you The Hangover, whose screenplay talents are stuck in the fucking 2000s.

Rendy JonesOctober 11, 2019Jexi, Comedy

The Addams Family Review

What a year in animation it’s been where some of my least anticipated movies of the year ended up being surprisingly enjoyable.

Rendy JonesOctober 11, 2019The Addams Family, Animation, Reboot

Greener Grass Review

This was by far the weirdest movie I saw during Sundance and upon rewatching… uh, yeah, it’s still the weirdest movie of 2019 and one of the funniest for that matter.

Sundance 2019, SXSW 2019Rendy JonesOctober 11, 2019Greener Grass, Comedy, Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D'Arcy Carden

Parasite Review

As I left the theater, the first words that were uttered under my breath was, “Oh, so this is what Cinema feels like?”

TIFF 2019, NYFF 2019Rendy JonesOctober 10, 2019Parasite, Thriller, Drama, Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam

Marriage Story Review

Ugh, the more I type about this the more I tear up just thinking about it.

TIFF 2019, NYFF 2019, StreamingRendy JonesOctober 8, 2019Marriage Story, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Comedy, Drama

Pain and Glory Review

I’m loving this recent surge of screenwriters getting self-reflective with their projects, making some of the most poignant and effectively moving pictures of the year.