Posts Tagged ‘Michael J. Fox’
SXSW Review – Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
The film opens in 1990 at a hotel in Florida. Woken up by what Michael J. Fox thought was a moth fluttering against his cheek, it was instead a trembling pinkie finger animating itself, and he could not get it to stop. Thinking of why…
READ MOREFilm Review – Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen (2021) is the film adaptation of the popular, Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name. The awards it garnered included both Best Actor as well as Best Musical. However, something went drastically wrong in the translation from Broadway to the…
READ MOREFilm Review – De Palma
When it comes to the films of writer, director Brian De Palma there’s an automatic, overt sense of film making on the face of each one that typically it garners an immediate and strong response from viewers. For most of my life I have only…
READ MOREFilm Analysis – The Sexual Awakening of George McFly
On the cinematic date of October 21, 2015, Back to the Future II has Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) arrive in his hometown of Hill Valley thirty years from where the original film left off in order to help his kids. With all the attention…
READ MOREEpisode 213 – Peter Jackson
In honor of the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Spencer and Greg discuss Peter Jackson.
READ MOREEpisode 157 – Time Travel Movies
In honor of the release of Safety Not Guaranteed, Spencer and Greg discuss time travel movies.
READ MOREEpisode 145 – Country Movies
In honor of the release of Hick, Spencer and Greg discuss country movies.
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Back to the Future
There are some films that have become so familiar to us that watching them again feels a bit like coming home. We know the characters, we know the sequences, and sometimes we can even say the lines of dialogue before they come. They are so…
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