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”
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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 All of Us Strangers Anatomy of a Fall Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. The Boy and the Heron Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Killers of the Flower Moon MayContinue reading “2023 Golden Shrimp Award WINNERS”
2024 Movie Reviews: All of Us Strangers / Night Swim / They Cloned Tyrone
One clear loser this week. All of Us Strangers One film that needs more awards and audience attention is Andrew Haigh‘s All of Us Strangers, arguably the exceptional British auteur’s best. Perhaps it’s because every Oscar movie this season is big and loud with a capital L – Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, etc. Not to mentionContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: All of Us Strangers / Night Swim / They Cloned Tyrone”
2024 Movie Reviews: Ferrari / American Fiction / Birth/Rebirth / The Outwaters
Three hits and a surprising miss. Ferrari One of my most anticipated movies this Oscar season was Michael Mann‘s return to filmmaking after eight long years, Ferrari, a picture he’s been trying to make for decades. I had heard it was an amusing throwback to 90s and 80s historical dramas set outside the U.S. that cast AmericanContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Ferrari / American Fiction / Birth/Rebirth / The Outwaters”
2023 Movie Reviews: Poor Things / Maestro / The Iron Claw
Two studs and a dud this week. Poor Things An absolute on-brand delight from the often brilliant Yorgos Lathinmos, a Greek auteur who excels at making weird shit. Poor Things might just be his weirdest shit yet, based on a 1992 novel by the recently departed Alasdair Gray and adapted for the screen by The Favourite scribe Tony McNamara. It’s about a psychologicallyContinue reading “2023 Movie Reviews: Poor Things / Maestro / The Iron Claw”
2023 Movie Reviews: The Boy and the Heron / Dream Scenario / Passages
One clear winner this week. The Boy and the Heron (How Do You Live?) Japanese anime master and Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki returned from retirement for what I assume was a bid to save his company’s reputation from the clutches of his son, Goro. Sorry, Goro, but your 2020 computer-animated Earwig and the Witch was perhaps the worst cartoon I’veContinue reading “2023 Movie Reviews: The Boy and the Heron / Dream Scenario / Passages”
