Travis Hopson’s 20 Best Movies Of 2020
This year has sucked. You don't need me to rant and rave about it. We all know it did.
But the movie year? Well, that...
Review: ‘Little Fish’Olivia Cooke And Jack O'Connell Try To Find Their Own Eternal Sunshine...
Little Fish, the thought-provoking, poetic sci-fi love story from director Chad Hartigan, is a pandemic movie that isn't about the pandemic. Thank goodness. There...
Review: ‘Uncorked’Mamoudou Athie Delivers A Vintage Performance, But Netflix's Wine Drama Will Leave You...
Wine connoisseurs have always fascinated me. I'm someone who loves wineries and those who understand wine better than I ever could, but don't necessarily...
Review: ‘7500’Joseph Gordon-Levitt Pilots A Well-Crafted, Unconventional Airplane Thriller
Another airplane hijacking movie? This particular sub-genre has become a regular feature of the American blockbuster ever since 9/11, but 7500 promises something different...
Review: ‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’Armando Ianucci Smartly Reinvents The Dickens Classic For...
As the man behind such biting political satires as In the Loop and Veep, Armando Iannucci makes an interesting choice for an adaptation of...
Middleburg Review: ‘Minari’Steven Yeun Leads The Way In Lee Isaac Chung's Poignant, Beautiful Immigrant...
Minari. The word is foreign to most of here in America but in Korea it's an herb, a particularly rugged one that can assimilate...
Review: ‘Nomadland’Frances McDormand Delivers A Career Best Performance In Chloe Zhao's Enormous, Powerful Road...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
There are a lot of deep silences in Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland. Oftentimes they’re...
Review: ‘Brothers By Blood’Matthias Schoenaerts And Joel Kinnaman Add Towering Presence To A Bland...
I really should know better given the track record of picking movies to be extremely excited for. Brothers by Blood, a small-scale Philadelphia crime...
Review: ‘Extraction’Chris Hemsworth Kills 'em Dead In The Russo Brothers' Explosive, Point-Blank Action Flick
During Netflix's rapid ascent to the top of Hollywood's power structure, they've managed to corner the market on many different things: teen rom-coms, prestige...
Review: ‘Money Plane’Adam "Edge" Copeland Flies The Unfriendly Skies In A Ridiculous Heist Movie...
All aboard, the Money Plane! Imagine, a high stakes casino and underground gambling circuit that caters to the world's most notorious criminals and scoundrels,...