Queued Up – Examining The Best Of The Old And New Bryan Reesman September 27, 2017 Columns WONDER WOMAN (2017) The set-up: After her people's once isolated island sanctuary is beset by German invaders during WWI, Amazonian Princess Diana of Themyscira (Gal Gadot) journeys with American Major S...
Queued Up: “Sleight”, “Stormy Monday”, “A Shock To The System” and More! Bryan Reesman August 30, 2017 Columns SLEIGHT (2017) The set-up: Resorting to drug peddling to help raise his younger sister following their parents' deaths, a young magician named Bo (Jacob Latimore) starts getting in too deep with an incre...
Queued Up: ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Colossal,’ ‘They Live By Night’ and More Bryan Reesman August 9, 2017 Columns KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) The set-up: It's the end of the Vietnam War, and Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) is itching for one more mission. Boy, does he get one—a “geological survey” (led by ...
Queued Up: ‘The Lego Batman Movie,’ ‘XX,’ ‘Logan,’ and More Bryan Reesman July 12, 2017 Columns THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017) The set-up: Despite being the cowl with the scowl who triumphs over Gotham City’s criminal element, narcissistic Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) is a lonely individual without...
Queued Up: ‘Get Out,’ ‘Tunnel,’ ‘Tower,’ and More Bryan Reesman May 31, 2017 Columns GET OUT (2017) The set-up: African-American photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) journeys outside of NYC to visit the wealthy, secluded suburban family of his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Al...
Queued Up: ‘Hidden Figures,’ ‘The House That Screamed,’ House: Two Stories,’ And More Bryan Reesman April 26, 2017 Columns HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) The set-up: As America falls behind the Russians in the Space Race of the early 1960s, three African-American women—genius human computer Katherine Goble (targeting trajectories for...
Queued Up: ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them,’ ‘Silence,’ ‘Doctor Strange,’ and More Bryan Reesman April 5, 2017 Columns FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (2016) The set-up: Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a young British wizard and collector of fantastic beasts, arrives in New York in 1926 to seek out another oddit...
John Waters’ Filthy World: An Interview With John Waters Bryan Reesman March 29, 2017 Interviews John Waters, the subversive auteur from Baltimore who brought us bad taste cinema like Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, along with the endearing retro musicals Hairspray and Cry-Baby, is also an actor, au...
Queued Up: ‘Love Wolf And Cub,’ ‘Arrival,’ ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth,’ and More Bryan Reesman February 22, 2017 Columns LONE WOLF AND CUB (1972-74) The set-up: After his wife is killed by the venomous Yagyū clan that usurps his role as local Shogunate Executioner, a masterless ronin named Itto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama) ...
Queued Up: ‘ The Girl On The Train,’ ‘Jason Bourne,’ ‘Dead-End Drive-In,” and more Bryan Reesman January 25, 2017 Columns THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016) The set-up: An alcoholic commuter (Emily Blunt), stinging from her failed marriage and phone stalking her ex, becomes fascinated with her former neighbors who live next door....
