Tag Archives: olivia cooke

Sound of Metal (2020)

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Darius Marder Writers: Darius Marder & Abraham Marder (Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance) Great! One of my favorites of the year and Ahmed and Raci are two of my favorite performances of 2020.

Posted in Drama, Musical | Tagged 2020, abraham marder, addict, addiction, airstream, band, bert hamelinck, bill benz, cochlear implant, darius marder, deaf, derek cianfrance, drama, drummer, france, french, hearing, heavy metal, heroin, kathy benz, lauren ridloff, mathieu amalric, music, musical, musician, olivia cooke, paris, paul raci, relationship, riz ahmed, sacha ben harroche, sign language, surgery, tour | Leave a comment

Life Itself (2018)

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Dan Fogelman Writer: Dan Fogelman

Posted in Drama, Romance | Tagged 2018, alex monner, annette bening, antonio banderas, birth, college, dan fogelman, death, drama, farm, isabel durant, jake robinson, jean smart, laia costa, life, life itself, lorenza izzo, love, mandy patinkin, marriage, new york, new york city, nyc, olivia cooke, olivia wilde, oscar isaac, romance, samuel l. jackson, sergio peris-mencheta, spain, suicide, therapy, unreliable narrator, writer | Leave a comment

Thoroughbreds (2017)

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Cory Finley Writer: Cory Finley

Posted in Comedy, Crime, Drama | Tagged 2017, anton yelchin, anya taylor-joy, comedy, connecticut, cory finley, crime, dark comedy, drama, friends, friendship, girls, high school, jim rash, murder, nat faxon, olivia cooke, paul sparks, school, suburbs, teenager, thoroughbreds, tutor, upper class | Leave a comment

Ready Player One (2018)

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Zak Penn and Ernest Cline (Based on the novel by Ernest Cline)

Posted in Action, Adventure, Science Fiction | Tagged 2018, action, adaptation, adventure, avatar, back to the future, ben mendelsohn, contest, delorean, dystopia, easter egg, ernest cline, fortune, future, game, iron giant, lena waithe, letitia wright, mark rylance, oasis, olivia cooke, sci-fi, science fiction, simon pegg, steven spielberg, T.J. Miller, the shining, tye sheridan, video game, virtual reality, zak penn | Leave a comment

Ouija (2014)

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Stiles White Writers: Juliet Snowden & Stiles White

Posted in Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Tagged ana coto, bianca santos, board game, daren kagasoff, death, douglas smith, fantasy, friends, funeral, ghost, haunted, haunting, horror, jason blum, juliet snowden, killed, mystery, olivia cooke, ouija, ouija board, power, shelley hennig, sierra heuermann, spirit, stiles white, thriller | Leave a comment

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Writer: Jesse Andrews (Based on the novel by Jesse Andrews) I found the first 45 minutes or so of this movie to be extremely obnoxious and phony and the next hour was only a little better. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Comedy, Drama | Tagged adaptation, alfonso gomez-rejon, cancer, comedy, connie britton, drama, filmmaker, friendship, high school, hugh jackman, jesse andrews, jon bernthal, katherine hughes, leukemia, masam holden, matt bennett, molly shannon, movies, nick offerman, olivia cooke, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, rj cyler, thomas mann | Leave a comment