The M Report

A news story was reported in September of this year that the Amtrak Police Department, a federal police force that operates outside New York C…

30 years ago, at the 58th Academy Awards, Héctor Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Adapt…

Benjamin Howard won a regional Emmy Award for a short film called Deviant (2018) that he did about a LGBTQ teenager who was conflicted about h…

This could be considered an adaptation of a Bible story, a story that  comes from "The Book of Ruth." The story is about a woman who becomes a…

Walter Mosley is an African American author who has been publishing books since the 1990's. He's currently written several dozen. Mosley came …

Over 20 years ago, HBO aired a documentary called The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr (2002). It was about a…

The shortlist for Makeup and Hairstyling for the 97th Academy Awards included this film, written and directed by Bill Fishman, who mostly work…

Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and directed There Will Be Blood (2007), which is Anderson's fifth feature and is considered one of the greatest fi…

Sally El Hosaini is a Welsh-Egyptian filmmaker who released this, her third feature. It was co-directed by James Krishna Floyd who is an Engli…

Paul Mescal is probably most known now for his role in the recent blockbuster sequel, Gladiator II (2024). He was nominated for an Emmy Award …

Justin Tipping is the director here, but most people might think that Jordan Peele is the director. Peele is instead the producer. Yet, this f…

Michael Strassner is the star, the writer and producer of this film. He's originally from Baltimore, Maryland. He moved to Los Angeles to purs…

A Stephen King adaptation is a loaded statement. Depending on the filmmaker, we could get something amazing like Carrie (1976), The Shining (1…

One crazy night or even one crazy day is a genre of films that usually involves a story that takes place within a period of 24 hours or less. …

James Sweeney is a young filmmaker from Alaska. This film is his second feature as director. His debut was Straight Up (2020) in which Sweeney…

This year, the final season of And Just Like That... (2021) aired. The series on HBO Max was a spin-off of the hit program, Sex and the City (…

The hook of this film is that it purports to be about a married couple in an open relationship, meaning the husband and wife can have sex with…

This is an adaptation of a series of best-selling books by Richard Osman about a group of retired, British professionals, middle-aged or elder…

If you don't know who Riz Ahmed is, he is a British actor of Pakistani descent. He did some critically acclaimed, British films before being c…

Akira Kurosawa directed High and Low (1963), an adaptation of a 1959 novel about a wealthy man who has to decide over using all the money he h…

This film got a limited theatrical release. It's an animated musical that got a special, sing-along edition that's playing in cinemas for the …

This series was developed and produced for AMC Networks and the executive producer is Mark Johnson, one of the guys behind Better Call Saul (2…

Ever since the iconic Groundhog Day (1993), the concept of a time-loop narrative has been popularized. So many films and TV shows adopted the …

Amrou Al-Kadhi is a queer nonbinary, British artist who comes from an Iraqi family. They are an author. Their debut was Unicorn: The Memoir of…

The original, comedy film in 1988 opened with an American beating up a bunch of Middle Eastern leaders who were simply deemed terrorists, incl…

Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Happy Gilmore (1996). It starred Adam Sandler who was one of the breakout stars of Saturday Night Li…

This is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU. Yet, it's not connected to any of the 36 films that came before. It's its own,…

This is the third theatrical film based on the novel of the same name. The 1997 feature was a huge box office success. It was number-one for t…

James Gunn has made a name for himself with making superhero films and TV shows that center anti-heroes or people who one would never assume t…

I usually don't think about years as either being good for film or bad for film. Given that a few of the films on my list are films that were …

As I pointed out in my personal blog, I don't have Apple TV+, so none of their programming will show up on this list. A lot of people consider…

Every year, I publish a list on my personal blog of all the music that I enjoyed. I publish a preliminary list in early July and then a final …

The first film in this franchise Jurassic Park (1993) grossed over a billion dollars in the box office. All of the films starting with Jurassi…

It's an adaptation of the 2013 novel by Bernardine Evaristo, the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize, one of the top literary awards in …

I never saw Grand Prix (1966), which was nominated for three prizes at the 39th Academy Awards where it won three Oscars, including Best Sound…

Ciryl Gane is a French mixed-martial artist or MMA fighter, born in 1990. He started out in Muay Thai, but he's 6-foot-5 or nearly two meters …

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the TV series Noah's Arc (2005), which first aired on the cable channel Logo, a spin-off of the MTV ne…

Five years ago, in a review for Onward (2020), I pointed out that Pixar and Disney have a formula for how they craft their narratives. It's a …

This is the third film in the series that started with 28 Days Later (2002) and continued with 28 Weeks Later (2007). This is a franchise that…

This was a film that was nominated for the Queer Palm at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The protagonists are a gay male couple, but the film i…

Stephen King has written a lot of books and there is a long list of adaptations from those books. There have been at least 40 films, based on …

Alain Guiraudie is a French filmmaker who has directed over a half-dozen features. I've only seen Stranger by the Lake (2014) and Staying Vert…

Anthony Bawn, Dontá Morrison and Brandon Moten are the co-owners of VIM Media LLC, a company that specializes in content development and distr…

This is the first animated production in the franchise beginning with Predator (1987), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The basic premise is a …

This film is filled with stars, but the true star is Wes Anderson, the writer-director, whose filmmaking style is always at the forefront of p…

There are certain black comedies or horror comedies where one watches people do bad things and one is expected to laugh at it or remain on the…

This is a Canadian film that got a limited theatrical release last year both in Canada and in the United States. I try to pay attention to lim…