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Tag Archives: Danny Boyle

Second Breakfast: ‘Steve Jobs’ Earns its Embarrassingly Lazy Title

This is, what, the third or fourth Steve Jobs movie to come out since his death? Obviously, with a combo-pack of Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, and its all-star cast, it’s the only one with any momentum or potential, and has all the ingredients needed to set itself up as a major awards contender, because, as…

November 22, 2015 in Movie Review, Second Breakfast.

Second Breakfast: That Documentary Keanu Reeves Made

Keanu Reeves seems like a pretty cool dude. Right? Not only was John Wick just unreasonably above par, but his reputation of radness, or raditude, if you will, neither of them are words, so it doesn’t really matter, precedes him in Hollywood, establishing him as a stellar guy with a tragic past who apparently treats…

May 31, 2015 in Movie Review, Second Breakfast.

Strange Bacon’s Socially Relevant Films #23- Trainspotting

One of the big tricks when finding an interesting film with social implications is to be able to differentiate between an agenda and an objective analysis. Of course, no one can claim to have absolutely no bias, but there is a big gap between the propaganda films like Reefer Madness and one like Trainspotting, which…

August 24, 2013 in Movie Review, Strange Bacon.

Second Breakfast: A Clever Pun on the Word ‘Trance’

This has been a really weird year for me so far. I’ve reviewed, like, five new movies. That’s crazy! Usually I just write about anything I happen to have seen recently, which can range wildly and is how I ended up writing about The Last Unicorn. Of course, movie critics generally try to stay pretty…

April 14, 2013 in Movie Review, Second Breakfast.

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