I've recently discovered I like writing about movies, so that's exactly what I'm doing here
22 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Writing about a movie without resorting to cliches is difficult. What's the story about? An unnamed driver, Los Angeles - almost always at night, and a robbery gone wrong. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn e starring Ryan Gosling as 'the Driver', Dr...
7 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
I just watched The Old Guard 2, sequel to The Old Guard, a 2020 movie. The Old Guard is about a group of immortal mercenaries that are, par for the course, trying to fight the good fight and make the world a better place. The Old Guard 2 focuses on...
7 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
The Ides of March is a 2011 movie with George Clooney as Mike Morris, Democratic presidential candidate, and Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers, Morris' junior campaign manager. Meyers is painted as a talented but idealistic who naively view politics as...
26 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
People are excited about the upcoming third season of Reacher, based on the novel Persuader, as am I, but I can't help but notice a lot of discrepancies between the novel and the show. In the trailer alone, there are so many things to point out. I'm...
30 Sep 2024 1 minute read 10 comments LeftFooted
I was watching a movie. An action thriller/whodunit. Not particularly sophisticated, but nice enough, and well written. I was trying to work out who the bad guy was, and the moment one of the characters was filmed picking up her phone, a foldable Sa...
17 Aug 2024 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted
I write for a living, so the one thing I always pay attention to when I'm watching a movie or a TV show is dialogue. I've watched the first episode of Bad Monkey, a new series on Apple TV, and I loved it. I loved it because Vince Vaughn is a great c...
6 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
The problem with modern movies is they're almost always either very political or very predictable. The Fall Guy is neither. In a way. The first thing that stands out, to me at least, is the excessive product placement, which I personally don't care...
1 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Writing a catchy synopsis for this movie, avoiding cliches, must have been harder than writing the script itself. A nameless driver, Los Angeles, a robbery gone wrong, the mob involved, a decent guy turned thug by the unfolding of circumstances. Dr...
21 Oct 2023 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning was filmed on a massive budget of $291 million. By the way, whenever you go on Wikipedia and read about a movie's budget, always remember that only includes production costs and does NOT include marketing costs....
17 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Sort of a lateral topic here, but I was minutes away from buying a Suunto watch after watching the first Equalizer movie. Suunto is the brand of the watch that Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) uses to tell time and, well, time the time it takes to...
