Green Book

2018

Directed by: Peter Farrelly

Written by: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini

Cinematographer: Sean Porter

Editor: Patrick J. Don Vito

Budget: $23 million

Box office: $321.8 million

Great flick!

I really enjoyed the movie. I thought that there was some good pacing good vibe just all around well executed fun movie. I’ve been wanting to see this movie for a while so I’m getting to see it on the big screen was fun. I didn’t realize there was a Peter Fairley movie was definitely well directed. It was a simple story but a lot of fun. Just to see how far we have come as a country in the last 2034 years maybe longer it’s pretty amazing to see and I hope we can continue to do that as a world. These music movies always make me wanna play some music. Hopefully I can get inspired enough for one day to go home and do it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6966692/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

8/10

Train Dreams

2025

Directed by: Clint Bentley.

Written by: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar.

Starring: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy.

Cinematographer: Adolpho Veloso.

Editor: Parker Laramie.

Budget: $10 million

I really liked this movie. It was kind of simple and nothing too flashy about it, but it was just telling a story very well cinematically. There was a sad story but singing on the big screen was awesome. It really got me to feel what was going on. Then some of the editing was just amazing the use of lighting, tricks and short clips jugs to pose to the man dreaming and thinking about things. Very well done I like those reminiscing kind of movies they make me feel own bits of my own life. It just goes to show that you can tell a simple story and still be effective. Well done. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29768334/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

8/10

Life Is Beautiful

1997

Directed by: Roberto Benigni

Written By: Roberto Benigni; Vincenzo Cerami

Starring: Roberto Benigni; Nicoletta Braschi; Giorgio Cantarini; Giustino Durano

Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli

Editor: Simona Paggi

Budget: ~$20 million USD

Box Office (Worldwide): $230,099,013 USD

I guess I like this movie more when I saw it when I was younger. It felt more impactful and left a more interesting feeling than what I just had now. It’s an interesting way to retail history in light of how dark the times were. But being a father and just constantly lying to your kid to try to make things better this isn’t real at all. So I guess maybe that’s part of the reason why it doesn’t resonate me now. I still have a little bit of nostalgia for it and that’s probably why I gave it to six but I’m just kind of contemplating how I really feel about it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

6/10

La La Land

2016

Directed by: Damien Chazelle

Written By: Damien Chazelle

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt

Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren

Editor: Tom Cross

I loved it. It was great. It wasn’t like overly amazing and it definitely didn’t under perform and is way better than normal so I’m not really great at these reviews yet. I just speak my mind. But I love Ryan Gosling. He’s one of my favorites and Emma Stone is amazing. She’s just a very dynamic actress. This movie though was just filled with awesome practical lighting scenes where they would just kind of theatrically change the lighting throughout the scenes and it was just done masterfully. Not a huge musical guy, but I do love music when you put the right people, and this is kind of based more than the jazz which I love it. Just hit all the marks for me. And I’m also a sucker for most Hollywood films so yeah, just a few good movie and I mean I like that they actually ended the film with an amazing what if kind of dream sequence to the one piece of music that was like kind of being dangled in front of you throughout and it was this parallel universe of what if I did this differently and got the girl, but they didn’t change it like he didn’t get the girl and I like that as much as I’m a sucker for you know them finishing with that good feeling. I’m also really proud of people who can pull it off that it doesn’t have to have that complete ending for it to be a great finish. This was the best finish. I can imagine in terms so. I just liked it good times good vibes had the whole movie theater to myself once again . Great job! 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3783958/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

8/10

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

2026

Directed by: Gore Verbinski 

Written By: Matthew Robinson 

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz 

Cinematographer: James Whitaker 

Editor: Craig Wood

Normally, I like movies like this it’s not that I didn’t like it. I just think he was trying too hard with a little predictable on some things and I think they’re trying to squeeze too much into one story. It was fun, but nothing I would completely recommend for everybody. I’m glad I watched it, but I don’t feel the need to watch it again. And overall it just was it was OK nothing nothing too special on my books if it came from a book. I bet you the book was much better so maybe I’ll read that cause it was just missing something. It felt a little forced. I guess I don’t know. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341338/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

6/10

Silver Linings Playbook

2012

Directed by: David O. Russell

Written By: David O. Russell (screenplay), Matthew Quick (novel)

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver

Cinematographer: Masanobu Takayanagi

Editor: Jay Cassidy, Crispin Stru

I just love this movie. I read the eight out of 10 before I saw it again, but I bumped it up to a nine out of 10 because it just makes me feel good watching it. It’s pretty close to being in a perfect romantic comedy. I guess the only reason I don’t give it a perfect 10 is it really didn’t push the envelope but just a really well well told story and you know nine out of 10 is amazing so I think I saved those 10 out of tens for things that Really set the bar even higher but definitely one of the best romantic comedies I’ve ever watched. I guess you don’t even know if it’s a comedy just like a romantic movie. I don’t know. I’d like it a lot Bradley Cooper, and. Jennifer Lawrence are unstoppable in this film not to mention his parents, Robert De Niro, and his mom everyone just does great. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

9/10

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

Directed by: Michel Gondry

Written By: Charlie Kaufman

Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo

Cinematographer: Ellen Kuras

Editor: Valdís Óskarsdóttir

Maybe in Mantauk?

I’m not a concept, I’m just a fucked up girl looking for piece of mind…

Just one of my favorite fucking movies I love this movie every time I watch it feels a little bit different but the same there’s just so many shortcuts that are uninterpretable as a single clip but cohesive as a hole I guess. The movie itself just has excellent concepts that are very relatable and just a really fun movie. The acting is superb directing on point the in camera effects and after effects are just fun and welcomed. I love this movie. It makes me wanna make movies.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

10/10

Dracula

2025

Directed by: Luc Besson

Written By: Luc Besson, Bram Stoker (Novel)

Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Christopher Waltz, Zoe Bleu,

Cinematographer: Colin Wandersman

Editor: Lucas Fabiani

Much better than I expected the sound design was awesome. The visuals were great. The acting was impeccable. I loved Dracula. He was amazing and overall just an excellent movie hide almost gave it a nine but I think I’m gonna give it an eight and I can’t explain why, but maybe you’re missing the it factor or something I don’t know

8/10

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31434030/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Iron Lung

Written and directed by; Mark plier

It’s impressive what people can do to do a whole movie in one little scene area, but Mann doesn’t get boring after a while. Feel claustrophobic after a while and the story just dragged on. It could’ve been like 45 minutes less than what it was. I’d give it a four out of 10 stars just wasn’t my cup of tea. I give them props for what they did with what they did, but not my type of movie I think of four is being generous.

4/10