Jason Wiese

Jason has been writing since his hands developed the strength to pick up a crayon. Growing up with the original dream to be a filmmaker, by the end of his high school career, he instead decided to pursue the next best thing: film criticism. Jason graduated from Lindenwood University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism. He currently writes movie reviews for Review St. Louis, Newstime and the Lincoln County Journal - as well as product descriptions for etrailer.com.

Movie Review: ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Starring Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin

People say they love a good detective story. The tale of the fedora-clad loner chasing after the unknown perpetrator of…

5 years ago

Movie Review: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler

Fantastic Disappointment: The Crimes of Warner Bros. As I, almost shamefully, revealed in my review of 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and…

5 years ago

Movie Review: ‘Suspiria’ Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick

Dancing in the dark. In 2016, I took a class covering the historical and cultural influence of the horror genre…

6 years ago

Movie Review: ‘A Star Is Born’ Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott

A New Classic Is Born In the past, many filmmakers have been creatively successful with remakes (i.e. The Magnificent Seven,…

6 years ago

Film Review: ‘Thoroughbreds’ Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin

Really, really, really ‘Mean Girls’ Back in your high school days, did you ever have a friend who was the…

6 years ago

Film Review: ‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’

Not quite the ‘Cure’ for the YA Novel genre. The dystopian young adult novel genre seems to be on its…

6 years ago

Film Review: ‘Suburbicon’ Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac

It’s time to move out Last week, I gave the Michael Fassbender-led “thriller” The Snowman a ZERO STAR rating (see…

7 years ago

Film Review: ‘The Snowman’ Starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Tommy Wiseau and Stieg Larsson walk into a bar… I believe we have the first great detective film spoof in…

7 years ago

Review: ‘Evil Dead The Musical’ is Off-Broadway, Off-Kiltered, and Awfully Good

In my early years of teenhood, I was beginning to develop an appreciation for the horror genre. Considering myself a…

7 years ago

Film Review: ‘The Foreigner’ Starring Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan

Chan and Brosnan fight… to be the star of the show   I believe there are many of us who,…

7 years ago