Santi's Film & TV Talks

      Hello, Everybody! Today I'm going to review Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7! Aaron Sorkin is one of the most talented screenwriters working in Hollywood today and he's my favorite screenwriter ever!   Following his directorial debut with Molly's Game starring Jessica Chastain, Sorkin directed his second feature, a film about 7 anti-war activists + Black Panther Party leader, Bobby Seale being put on trial for protesting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Their trial sparked controversy and divided a nation in terms of undermining the U.S. Government.  The trail became a historical moment in 1969.  The movie was originally going to be released in theaters by Paramount Pictures, but due to the uncertainty of its release, it was given to Netflix.  I just loved how every cast member chewed every scene! Particularly, Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman was quite the performance. The British actor reduces the archetype of all of the i...

          Hello, Everybody! Today, I posted a review of the new Amazon Original movie, Nocturne. The fourth and last  movie of "Welcome to the Blumhouse".  In this latest Blumhouse horror film, Nocturne is about two fraternal twins, Juliet and Vivian who go to an elite arts academy and Juliet begins to outshine Vivian when she discovers mysterious sheet music to belonged to a dead classmate. This movie was better than "The Lie" in terms of great performances. Particularly, Sydney Sweeney shined in this challenging role. Just by her facial expressions you can easily tell that Juliet is going down a very dark path of insanity. It even outshines the movie's very flawed screenplay. While I can also easily defend it just because it's Zu Quirke's directorial debut. If movies like Whiplash and Black Swan taught us anything it's that music studies are a living hell and they take a very drastic and mental toll on Juliet. When the notebook takes a hold of J...

Hello, Everybody! Today I'm did something a little different, I reviewed the new season of the hit comic book TV adaptation, The Boys. This will be the first of many of my TV show reviews. This does contain major major spoilers! So if you haven't watched the new episodes yet, please start now and then you read this article.  AGAIN. *THIS IS A SPOILER ALERT!!* Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's graphic novel of the same name and created by Eric Kripke and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, The Boys isn't your typical superhero show, whereas normally a superhero tv show would be focused on a hero protagonist like The Flash, Supergirl or Green Arrow, but in this show, the protagonist is a normal guy named Hughie Campbell, whose girlfriend was accidentally killed a superhero named A-Train and he's approached by Billy Butcher, who is played to perfection by Karl Urban and is the leader of a ragtag group of vigilantes called The Boys. Their mission? To tak...

Hello Everybody! This is my review of Adam Sandler's latest new comedy, Hubie Halloween. After being snubbed of his Oscar nomination for his great lead performance in Uncut Gems, he has promised to intentionally make an unfunny comedy film and he did not disappoint. Now he's going back to the Razzies! Hubie Halloween is about the most unpopular guy in Salem, Massachusetts named Hubie Dubois. He's also a community volunteer and the biggest town loser, when his town is thrown in real danger on Halloween Night, he must solve the mystery.  This isn't one of those bad Adam Sandler comedies, you can tell that he tries really hard to make a bad movie and the result is surprisingly comedy gold. It's one thing for a movie trying hard to be good but a movie trying hard to be bad is something else entirely. Even Hubie's voice is very hard to resist and he might even be Adam Sandler's greatest character since Billy Madison.  Was it an excuse to hang out with Sandler...

Hello, Everybody! This is my review of the Amazon Original movie, The Lie. It's the first movie of Prime Video's Welcome to the Blumhouse, an anthology project from Blumhouse Productions, who has given us Get Out,  Paranormal Activity, Insidious and The Invisible Man. It's compromised of 4 stories to showcase talented filmmakers with big screen ideas.  This 2018 suspense film which came out last night is... shall I say.. not good! The movie, starring Joey King as a 15-year-old girl who accidentally kills her friend and then her parents try to cover it up rather than being held accountable for their daughter's actions! It's basically an hour and a half of the girl's parents making really dumb decisions and it's pacing is soo slow by trying too hard to be suspenseful.  While Peter Sarsgaard, Mireille Enos and King tried their best with the material that they were given.   Veena Sud's film is a case of morality clause that never grabs you. The movie just fo...

  Hello, Everybody! I'm Santiago Brion and today I did a list of movies that were supposed to be released in theaters this year. On March 2020, the world of cinema came to an unfortunate disappoint when CO-VID19 had entered U.S. Borders which led to many of the film's release dates being pushed back. Okay, guys. Here's the list. 20. The King's Man A prequel to the Kingsman movies, this movie takes place during WW1 and sees that one man must put a stop of to a bunch of evil masterminds from starting a war. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Gemma Arterton, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Rhys Ifans and Charles Dance and it will see Matthew Vaughn in the director's chair once again. Originally scheduled for a February 14th, will now be released on February 12th, 2021. 19. Candyman This isn't necessarily a remake, a sequel or a reboot but more of a quasi-sequel, meaning that this is a new take ...