Rich man’s Network: I feel the underpinnings of Frank is dissatisfaction with social media. Network screams this same dissatisfaction from the rooftops. Literally. ★★★★☆ Frank is a weird movie. It stars Domhnall Gleeson as a wannabe musician named Jon who gets pulled into an avant-garde art rock band led by the titular Frank. Frank is […]

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Poor Man’s Matchstick Men: it checks all the con-man boxes, but without much style ★★★☆☆ Last week, we talked about one of David’s great loves, the biopic. This week we wade into another of his favorite topics: the con man movie. The con man genre is full of excellent films and even better characters. Con […]

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Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre! ★★★★☆ That’s right, I’m opening this rebuttal up in French. Before my next review, I wanted to give you my perspective on The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki. David and I, y’know the two guys mentioned in the tagline, will be writing rebuttals […]

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Poor man’s The Good Shepherd: I somehow found this slower and less interesting than the profoundly boring fake story about how the CIA started in the US. ★★☆☆☆ Before we start on this film review, we need to have a discussion about biopics. I love biopics. If there’s a genre that has my absolute forgiveness, […]

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Poor man’s Alien. This time, when the monster shows up, it’s not as terrifying as the xenomorph ★★★☆☆ High Noon is a movie that has been on my radar for a long time. It is a 1952 classic directed by Fred Zinneman, starring Gary Cooper as Marshall Will Kane and Grace Kelly as his quaker […]

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Rich man’s Mean Girls, the parts I like, I like way more than Mean Girls. I think Heathers is gonna stick with me more. ★★★☆☆ Heathers is an eighties movie (1988 to be exact). The haircuts are eighties. The slang is eighties. All of the women wear shoulder padded pantsuits. They look like fucking linebackers. […]

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