M.N. Miller

Who doesn’t love a good heist film? I sure do, and I may argue that it’s hard not to make one that is at least...

There have been so many coming of age comedies since Dazed and Confused that they all have been repeated, copied, and blatantly ripped-off so much...

There are so many things that could have gone wrong in Gavin O’Connor’s latest sports film, The Way Back. He could have fallen victim to...

Our Godfather is an interesting case study — fascinating really, in taking away the Hollywood lore of most gangster films for a clean, no-nonsense, but arm’s-length...

All movies that have dogs in them, real, digitally created, or both, should be graded on a curve. Consciously or unconsciously, but I’ve come to...

There is a scene in the middle of Buffaloed that completely sold me on Tanya Wexler’s dramedy about a tenacious young woman trying to make...

It’s a good thing they don’t play chess by candlelight otherwise Bill Pullman spontaneously combusts like a small batch of kindling. I cannot think of...

Initially, I felt Clemency would be a film that would have been better suited as a stage play off-Broadway since “The Great White Way” seems...

The Last Full Measure is a “let’s do the right thing” picture that lacks an overall filmmaking savvy, but makes up for it with well-earned based-on-a-true-story...

You may know I have been a Conan O’Brien super fan for years. His remotes and skits are my go-to comfort videos after a bad...

I’ve always been a fan of season-long murder mystery series. I never minded the awkward way The Killing ended at the end of the first...

I now have a theory that the great play by play man, Jack Buck(I previously attributed it to Vin Scully), wasn’t talking about Kirk Gibson’s...

You have to give Disney credit for sticking to their business model. This giant conglomerate goes back to the well like no other. Their latest...

I’m not sure if it’s my fond memories of my childhood re-watching the original Star Wars series that have me holding the JJ Abrams-helmed incarnation...

Maybe I’m just naïve when it comes to a movie about an admirable man or woman who fights injustice by telling truth to power; I’m...

Directed by Fernando Meirelles, we review the Netflix film The Two Popes (2019), which does not contain any spoilers. There might be more exciting ways...

Very early on in Just Mercy, you are doused in two engrossing and powerful scenes. The first is of our hero of this fact-based story,...

There have been some rumblings of what some are calling sensationalized scenes, even gratuitous, used in Melina Matsoukas’s new film. Working from a script from...

Noelle (Disney+) is one of the very first films that has launched on Disney’s new platform this month. It’s the perfect, safe choice really. It’s a...

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is his gangster epic: a big, grand, ambitious rags to riches mob tale that blurs the lines between loyalty, friendship, family,...