Posts tagged Matt Reeves
PODCAST: Episode 52 of "The Cinephile Hissy Fit" Podcast
PODCAST: Episode 52 of "The Cinephile Hissy Fit" Podcast

For their 52nd episode, eye-liner wearing film critics, non-murdered dads, and nocturnal teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan have landed the big one! Folks have been waiting years for The Batman reboot from Matt Reeves starring Robert Pattinson, or Bobby Bats as the cool people call him. We stay spoiler-free for our opening five-minute turns and go FULL SPOILERS after the break for the full discussion. See where Defender Don and Marvel Shill Will fall on this new incarnation dressed in black.

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Cinephile Hissy Fit, Podcast, 25YL, Media AppearanceDon ShanahanFeelin' Film, The Batman, Matt Reeves, Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Michael Giacchino, 25YLComment
MOVIE REVIEW: The Batman
MOVIE REVIEW: The Batman

Not to sound like a barista at a coffee shop, but we’ve reached a point after 83 years of character history across innumerable pages and screens that one has to ask, “How do you take your Batman?” Do you need emblematic cream, sugar, ice, extra caffeine, froth, or some similar fancy twist? If you take it black, filmmaker Matt Reeves has a trenta special called The Batman with your name on it.

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2022, 4 STARS, ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanThe Batman, Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright, Matt Reeves, Michael Giacchino, BatmanComment
MOVIE CLASSROOM: War for the Planet of the Apes
MOVIE CLASSROOM: War for the Planet of the Apes

It's time to call the prequel trilogy of Planet of the Apes one of the best movie trilogies of all-time.  It's time to give serious Oscar consideration to Andy Serkis as Caeser.  It's time to see what is, so far, the best film of 2017.  Hear those thoughts and more in my "Movie Classroom" interactive whiteboard video review for War for the Planet of the Apes as it appears published on the Every Movie Has a Lesson YouTube channel.  See this film immediately.

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2017, Social Media, SPECIALDon ShanahanKerasotes ShowPlace ICON X at Roosevelt Collections2017, 2017 Summer Movies, War for the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Andy Serkis, Matt Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Movie trilogies, movie review, film review, video review, movie commentary, film commentary, life lessons, life lessons from film, life lessons from movies, life lessons from films, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Movie Classroom, ShowMe, Windows MovieMaker, video discussion, YouTube channel, YouTube, social media, social media platform, whiteboard, interactive whiteboard, interactive whiteboard appComment
MOVIE REVIEW: War for the Planet of the Apes
MOVIE REVIEW: War for the Planet of the Apes

A significant shift in attention and investment has occurred in this series.  Our hearts and allegiances swayed from rooting for the madness of our own mankind to the superior traits of humanity exhibited by Caesar and his ape brethren.  A transformation of empathy like that is downright miraculous.  War for the Planet of Apes is a full-bodied epic of glory and pain that matches and then exceeds the moving importance and heart this rebooted franchise has established in two previous knockout films.

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2017, 5 STARS, ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanShowPlace ICON X at Roosevelt Collections2017, 2017 Summer Movies, Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, Best of 2017, Andy Serkis, Caesar, Pixar, Toby Kebbell, Woody Harrelson, Ty Olsson, Terry Notary, Karin Konoval, Amiah Miller, Steve Zahn, Spartacus, Jurassic World, Michael Giacchino, Jerry Goldsmith, Lost, Matt Reeves, John Williams, Mark Bomback, Michael Bay, Transformers, The Batman, The Lord of the Rings, Gollum, Toy Story, Star Wars, The Godfather trilogy, Christopher Nolan, Peter Jackson, Special Achievement Oscar, Special Achievement Academy Award, Academy Award, Academy Award hopeful, film review, movie review, movie commentary, film commentary, life lessons, life lessons from film, life lessons from movies, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars trilogy, Movie trilogies, trilogies, superior sequels, sequels, reboot, remake, Reimagining, Donald Shanahan, Don ShanahanComment
MOVIE REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
MOVIE REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Every single positive piece of praise and advanced buzz about this movie is completely true.  The is the best movie I have seen this summer, by a landslide.  This film is tremendous on every single level.  This is the summer blockbuster you need to pay to see.  This is the movie you'll make a point to put on the shelf or the digital library in the future.  This is the movie that, years from now, you will point to as the coming out party for something even bigger that's happened since.  This is the movie we were promised and were waiting for.  This one is going to leave a mark on our cinematic memory. 

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2014, 5 STARS, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanRise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes movie review, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes film review, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review, life lessons from movies, life lessons from films, life lessons from film, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, movie review, film review, film commentary, movie commentary, sequels, film franchises, James Franco, Andy Serkis, Caesar, Matt Reeves, Rupert Wyatt, Tim Burton, Planet of the ApesComment