The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- Babylon is the movie that I wanted Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to be. The Tarantino flick was loved by critics and it bored me to tears. Babylon is hated by critics and I loved it. Go figure. The film is about the silent era of Hollywood as […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- Violent Night is one of those concepts that seems so obvious and simple that it’s amazing that it took so long for someone to make it: It’s Die Hard, but what if it was Santa Claus instead of John McClane? Fucking brilliant, right? Why hasn’t anyone done this before? While […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- I really didn’t know what to expect going into The Menu, so it’s fitting that it shares several things in common with Barbarian from a couple of months ago. First, they are from directors that have primarily been chugging along with television work and have few films to their credit. […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- I am a huge fan of the first two Clerks movies. Although I am about ten years younger than the characters in the movies, I still feel like I grew up with them. A friend of mine (who came with me to see this one) showed me the original on VHS […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ The Italian poet Francesco Petrarch once wrote that “nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness.” There is much wisdom in the accumulated talent of Bullet Train, but the film’s obsession with its own sense of cleverness often overrides the positives on display and gets in the way of […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B+ Vengeance, the directorial debut of B.J. Novak, is a dark comedy and a refreshingly neutral social commentary about the blending of cultures from red and blue states. A surprisingly original film to (briefly) creep into about a thousand theaters nationwide, Vengeance is an engrossing and often funny film that offers […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ In many ways, The Lost City is a throwback. Perhaps most notably, it is a medium-budgeted film that isn’t based on an existing intellectual property. That alone put it in my good graces as I entered the theater. It is also a star-driven comedy, something that has become almost extinct […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B I’ll start by admitting that I don’t know a damn thing about fashion. For those that know me, this will come as a shocking admission. My attire of flannels and 80s band t-shirts may signify that I’m on the cutting edge of the latest trends, but that is just a […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D The original Ghostbusters is the first movie that I can ever remember seeing and it started my love of movies. I was obsessed with it and I know it by heart. Ghostbusters 2 was (I think) the second movie that I ever saw in a theater. The Ghostbusters cartoon was […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I must admit that I’m not a huge fan of Tom and Jerry cartoons. While I grew up with the old Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbera cartoons, and literally have a Bugs Bunny cartoon on the tv as I write this, the cat and mouse pair never did much for me. […]