Movie Monday: Oscars 2018

Over winter break, I had the opportunity to watch Lady Bird, which is one of the nominees for best picture at this year’s 90th anniversary of the Academy Awards or 2018 Oscars. IMDb reports that Lady Bird had around a $10 million dollar budget and garnered a box office slightly shy of $44 million dollars. The notoriously harsh website Rotten Tomatoes has given Lady Bird a 99 percent overall rat...

As the credits rolled on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and one guy in the second row started to clap, I was glad that I had spent the last two hours of my life with it, and decided that coming to see it alone on a school night was definitely worth it. Frances McDormand delivers a powerful performance as a mother in southern Missouri trying to get justice for her daughter’s murder by putting up th...

On Tuesday, I saw the latest drama; The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg who connects the 1971 release of the pentagon papers to the right to publish the truth. The movie follows Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), the Publisher of the Washington Post, and her editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks). The two main characters are given documents that detail the events leading up to the Vietnam War. The decision to ...

Set in Italy in 1983, Call Me by Your Name is the final story in Andre Aciman’s Desire trilogy. Call Me by Your Name follows an unlikely love story between 17-year-old Elio (Timothee Chalamet) and one of his father’s assistants, Oliver (Armie Hammer). The story begins with Oliver coming to live in Italy to work for Elio’s father and live with them. The film shifts as the two boys grow closer,...

Based on the true story of how Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of England during World War II, The Darkest Hour tells the personal story and struggles of Churchill during this time. The movie starts off showing The Parliament in England in need of a new leader. Churchill is appointed as Prime Minister and from then on in the movie the audience gets a look inside the extremities of Churc...

I entered the AMC theater to watch Oscar nominated film Phantom Thread with the viewing expectation of a dramatic love story between a innocent young woman and a renowned dressmaker. When I walked out, that expectation had been shattered. It was replaced with an unanticipated sense of bewilderment. Straying from the plot of a typical romance, the twisted love affair between the two protagonists...