Grant Minnick's Movie Reviews

“Why do you fight against us, so far away from where you are needed?” - Hanoi Hannah Da 5 Bloods is the newest film directed by Spike Lee, and it stars Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Chadwick Boseman, and Jonathan Majors.  The film tells the tale of four Black veterans who return to Vietnam in the present day to bring home the remains of a fallen soldier.  However, that isn’t their only mission.  They are also there to recover a cache of buried gold and split the money between the four of them.   Da 5 Bloods is an incredibly intense yet heartfelt film, and it’s also very important and relevant to what’s going on in the world today.  It’s an extremely politically charged movie, and while that could be a turn-off for some people, I think it’s the type of film that needs to be seen regardless of who you are.  It’s informative and educational, and it gives the viewer knowledge about our current political climate as well as t...

“She won’t let death get in the way of her job.” - James Bond Spectre is a 2015 film directed by Sam Mendes, and is the fourth film to star Daniel Craig as James Bond.  In this film, Bond is led right to the heart of a mysterious organization known as Spectre.  He finds out that all of his adversaries from the previous three films all have ties to Spectre, and the leader of the organization has an important connection to Bond’s past.  Meanwhile, a man named Max Denbigh challenges M by claiming that MI6 is irrelevant, and decides that there is no use for the program anymore. When it first released in 2015, Spectre didn’t get great reviews.  It received quite a bit of hate from fans, which in my opinion is completely undeserved.  I actually thoroughly enjoyed Spectre .  I think the problem that viewers experienced when the film released was that they were expecting another Skyfall .  Sam Mendes had so much success with Skyfall that he was bro...