Guest: ‘Swapped’ Director Nathan Greno
Nathan Greno (“Tangled”) is the director of the new Skydance Animation feature “Swapped”, premiering this Friday May 1st on Netflix. Greno discusses the personal aspects of the story, the importance of the film’s nature themes, and working with Oscar-winning star Michael B. Jordan. 2015 LCJ Q&A Podcast guests included Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (“Juno”) and […]
‘Sinners’ Movie Review
Ryan Coogler delivered a powerhouse trio of films in “Fruitvale Station”, “Creed” and “Black Panther”. Outside of Angela Bassett’s performance and the opening Marvel intro tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman, I wasn’t a huge fan of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. But Coogler is back to form with “Sinners” — an original concept with a […]
Michael B. Jordan Career Highlights So Far
Michael B. Jordan is a SAG Awards winner as part of the ensemble of Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther”. His performance also earned him a Critics Choice Best Supporting Actor nomination. A few years earlier, Jordan was up for the Lead Actor Independent Spirit Award for his breakthrough work in “Fruitvale Station”. His director on both […]
‘Just Mercy’ Movie Review
‘Just Mercy’ Review
“Just Mercy” is being advertised as 2019’s end-of-year, feel-good, inspirational, real-life legal drama. And rightfully so. Co-writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton presents a solid, true story of a young lawyer’s battle against the system and the odds, in the name of justice. Michael B. Jordan plays Bryan Stevenson. Fresh out of Harvard Law School in 1987, […]
‘Creed II’ Review
Many, including big fans of the original, complained that there were too many installments in the “Rocky” franchise. Now, we can already make that case for the spinoff “Creed” series. 2015’s “Creed” was a modern update on “Rocky” that stuck to the formula while simultaneously going deeper with the Rocky Balboa character than ever before. […]
‘Fantastic Four’ Review
20th Century Fox and Marvel have already made two “Fantastic Four” movies – the first released a little more than 10 years ago. Now they’re at it again, with a film that should’ve been called “Fantastic Four Origins”, because that’s exactly what it is – a 100 minute backstory to a potential sequel that should […]
