18 March
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WINDFALL Cast Interviews – Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons, Lily Collins Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons, and Lily Collins star in Netflix’s latest release, Windfall, a small ensemble thriller about a home invasion involving a CEO, his wife, and the man looking to rob from the rich. I sat down with them to talk about this “scrappy” little movie, the “happy accidents” along the way, and their favorite Hitchcock thrillers. I would love it if you clicked the Like and Subscribe buttons for more reviews and interviews. This helps more people find Paul’s Trip to the Movies!Read More →

18 March
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WINDFALL Director: Charlie McDowellStarring: Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons, Lily Collins, Omar Leyva Much like The Outfit that’s also releasing this week, Netflix’s latest release, Windfall, is a small-ensemble thriller with a few surprises along the way. Jason Segel is credited in the film as Nobody. We see him wandering the grounds of a gorgeous little getaway home in Ojai, California. It’s clearly not his house but he’s leaving his mark in more ways than one as he cases the joint. Before he’s done robbing the place, the owners CEO and Wife (Plemons and Collins) walk in catching him in the act. He’s a young billionaireRead More →

20 November
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MANK Director: David FincherStarring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Charles Dance, Arliss Howard, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke The American Film Institute has twice proclaimed Citizen Kane the greatest film of all time in their Top 100 countdowns. The new film Mank is another examination of that film. The title “Mank’ is the nickname for Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz played by fellow Oscar winner, Gary Oldman. It’s 1940 and Orson Welles is given carte blanche to make any movie he wants and given total creative control over it. Mank’s screenplay is on a tight deadline for Welles, but his broken leg and alcoholism areRead More →

08 May
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EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE Director: Joe BerlingerStarring: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Jim Parson, John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Angela Sarafyan Zac Efron takes his career in a bold turn by starring as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. The film picks up the night he met his girlfriend, Liz (Collins), in a dive bar. He’s charming and a smoother talker and convinces her to spend the night together back at her house. He’s studying law, while she is a single mother with a young baby girl. He appears to be loving and caring, but that happens to be just one side of him. TheRead More →

28 December
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2016: A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016 was not the best year when it came to the selections at your local movie theater. The spring brought out it the usual duds, the summer season was wildly disappointing, and the fall had a few great films to try and redeem itself. Big blockbuster movies like X-Men: Apocalypse, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and The Divergent Series: Allegiant were not greeted with the same sort of enthusiasm upon it’s release. All four were disappointing in some regard. We also saw reboots and revivals of franchises with Ghostbusters, Jason Bourne, Bridget Jones’s Baby,and Blair Witch; some of them wereRead More →