Marriage Story (2019)

That’s marriage. The union between actress Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and theatre director Charlie (Adam Driver) has become tenuous and clearly headed for divorce. Still, they’re nowhere near Nick and Amy Dunne levels, and plan to make every effort to split as amicably and as clean as humanely possible (they don’t want to bring lawyers into […]

Avengers: Endgame

Reader’s note (as if you care at this point): No explicit spoilers, though an aspect or two may be implied. But really, over two billion box office worldwide as of this writing indicates you’ve probably already seen. It’s that time of the game, where the sacrifice play might have to be made; lay down on […]

Rough Night

Rick James said it best: Cocaine is a hell of a drug. Ten years ago at George Washington University, Jess (Scarlett Johansson), Alice (Jillian Bell), Frankie (Ilana Glazer), and Blair (Zoë Kravitz) become lifelong friends during their freshman year. 10 years later, everyone’s in the real world living their own lives. Jess is striving to […]

The Jungle Book: Movie Man Jackson

The Jungle Book is a reminder that the jungle, no matter how beautiful it may look, is still filled with danger everywhere. In this jungle lives Mowgil (Neel Sethi), a man-cub who has known nothing but the jungle since being found as a very young boy by the black panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley). He’s been raised as […]

Captain America: Civil War-Movie Man Jackson

Bob Marley was quoted one day saying that “Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.” The recent events of the Avengers are going to test that quote to the fullest. Anytime the Avengers protect and serve, they also seem to bring unintended, but significant, collateral damage. First […]

Hail, Caesar!: Movie Man Jackson

Never play with the future. Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), is a studio head—a fixer, actually—for Capital Pictures in the 1950’s. His main job is to protect Capital Pictures’ stars, sweeping unsavory life details and anything that can generally hurt the image of the studio. It isn’t an easy job having to deal with the issues superstars […]

Avengers: Age of Ultron: Movie Man Jackson

“How is humanity saved if it isn’t allowed to evolve?” How is it that striving for peace almost always seems to make things worse than they are? There is no assembling The Avengers this time around, the group is already comprised. In Age of Ultron, the good guys are back and a cohesive super unit. Captain America, […]

Marvel’s The Avengers: Movie Man Jackson

“Because if we can’t protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we’ll avenge it!” And this is the story all about how a little blue box turned the world upside down. Director of S.H.I.E.L.D Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) makes his way onto the Santa Fe headquarters of the agency one day during an […]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Movie Man Jackson

“This isn’t freedom. This is fear.” Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, and perhaps no movie (at least in recent memory) better reflects this famous quote more than Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Marvel’s new Phase II installment reintroduces us to Steve Rogers, Captain America himself. It has been a few years since the […]

Her: Movie Man Jackson

“Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel.” We’ve seen this central theme before of the relationship of technology to humans, but never quite like this. Spike Jonze’s Her centers around a introverted, soon-to-be divorced man by the name of Theodore Twombly who has become quite lonely and reticent in his separation […]