Joy Review

Preface

Joy is a new movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramirez, and Bradley Cooper. Among others.
It focuses on a woman (named Joy…) who was the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and ultimately shows all of the financial and familial struggles she went through to get there.
And it’s a very weirdly structured movie…

The Hateful Eight Review

Preface

The Hateful Eight is the newest movie from writer/director Quentin Tarantino and it stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and others.
And this movie is ultimately an old-timey western that brings in a whodunit aspect in the second-half.
And, much like The Revenant, this movie is kinda half and half.

Preface

In one of my most anticipated fall movies, The Revenant is from Alejandro Iñárritu, the director of Birdman, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
And this movie is ultimately a survival story of DiCaprio’s character left for dead by Hardy’s character set on the 19^th century frontier.

Preface

The Big Short is a movie starring Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, and a whole bunch of other guys.
It’s directed by Adam McKay, the director of Anchorman and a ton of other Will Ferrell comedies.
And although this movie is funny, it’s definitely not a comedy. It’s this fresh and energetic look at the minds who predicted the 2007 Housing Crisis.
And this movie is really enjoyable, albeit not perfect.

Preface

Sisters is a new movie starring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey where they play (you guessed it) sisters.
Their parents are selling their childhood home, but the sisters want to have one last memorable party at the house before it’s gone.
And I did not have high expectations going into this movie. The trailers looked terrible, I didn’t know much about the creative team, and it seemed like a joke that this thing was coming out the same weekend as Star Wars.
But the movie wasn’t as terrible as I thought it would be. That being said, it still wasn’t good…