Only one stinker this week. Civil War My first thought after leaving the theater showing Civil War was, “I wonder how this movie will fare in 10 years?” I have a sneaking suspicion it will all but mostly be forgotten about. This isn’t to say Alex Garland (Men, Annihilation, Ex-Machina) has made a bad film because he hasn’t. He’sContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Civil War / The First Omen / Curb Your Enthusiasm / Regime / Ripley”
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Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 3 (#80-71)
Part 1: #100-91 Part 2: #90-81 Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilitiesContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 3 (#80-71)”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Monkey Man / Immaculate / Road House / The Truth vs Alex Jones / The Program / You’ll Never Find Me
Nothing is particularly great this week. Monkey Man If there was ever a ‘kitchen sink’ movie, it’s Monkey Man, the debut feature of underrated young actor-turned-writer/director/producer Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, The Green Knight, Lion). While it often feels like fourteen different movies starting and stopping throughout a 113-minute runtime, it’s more or less a hyper-stylized revenge tale. When aContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Monkey Man / Immaculate / Road House / The Truth vs Alex Jones / The Program / You’ll Never Find Me”
Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 2 (#90-81)
Check out Part 1: (#100-91) here… Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilitiesContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 2 (#90-81)”
2024 TV & Film Reviews: Love Lies Bleeding / Late Night with the Devil / Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV / Monster
Everything good this week. Love Lies Bleeding 2020 was a barren wasteland for movies and even some of its best films wouldn’t even rank for me in other years. Obviously this was all because of Covid, so it’s no big mystery why this was arguably the weakest year in cinema history. Still, there was aContinue reading “2024 TV & Film Reviews: Love Lies Bleeding / Late Night with the Devil / Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV / Monster”
Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 1 (#100-91)
Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilities on this site: reviewing new filmContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 1 (#100-91)”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Dune Part Two / Perfect Days / Dark Harvest / Nowhere
3 indies and an E-P-I-C. Dune Part Two Dune Part Two is a tremendous and moving visual experience that must be had in a movie theater. I regret not seeing it in IMAX, even though those hard, skinny seats are hell on my back. I saw it at Majestic, a Phoenix-based, independently-owned theater chain that took overContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Dune Part Two / Perfect Days / Dark Harvest / Nowhere”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: True Detective: Night Country / The Taste of Things / How to Have Sex / Suitable Flesh / The Doom Generation / Lover Stalker Killer
Just Bs and Cs this week. True Detective: Night Country I had reasonably high expectations for a series starring Jodie Foster, produced by Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, and written and directed by talented filmmaker Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid). The biggest detractor for me was that Night Country was sporting the True Detective brand, which hasn’t meant much since the first and best seasonContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: True Detective: Night Country / The Taste of Things / How to Have Sex / Suitable Flesh / The Doom Generation / Lover Stalker Killer”
2024 TV & Movie MiniReviews: Godzilla Minus One, Zone of Interest, Beekeeper, Dumb Money, Eileen, Founders Day, Fargo, The Curse, The Passenger, American Nightmare
Sorry folks, it’s been a while since I posted but I’ve been pretty busy with life stuff. I’ve been tired and fairly unmotivated to write beyond my 9-5 and freelance stuff. However, I’ve seen my share of new content over the past month, so I decided to do some mini-reviews for ya’ll – 7 films,Continue reading “2024 TV & Movie MiniReviews: Godzilla Minus One, Zone of Interest, Beekeeper, Dumb Money, Eileen, Founders Day, Fargo, The Curse, The Passenger, American Nightmare”
2023 Golden Shrimp Award WINNERS
Nothing fancy this year, just a list of my winners. This is as close to a meritocracy as I could get. Best Picture Not even nominated for a single fucking Oscar, my favorite film of the year was also the most emotionally resonant. I think the actual problem is that voters didn’t see this movie.Continue reading “2023 Golden Shrimp Award WINNERS”
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