Sunday, March 16, 2025
Note: The phrase “sad weirdos” is aimed, with love, at fellow users of Letterboxd, where this review was originally published. I know I’m supposed to shit on this movie with the rest of you sad weirdos who watch things we hate for two straight hours. And sure, you could have done much better …Saturday, February 15, 2025
This review may contain spoilers. The big laughs come and go, but I’m just a sucker for Craig Ferguson so I was smiling the whole time I watched I’m So Happy, available in full on his YouTube channel. I thought his mini-rant about context and not filming on phones was well done, especially because, …Friday, November 29, 2024
I watched this in the middle of the night on Thanksgiving Eve while I decorated the living room for Christmas because I couldn’t sleep. And that is one of what I imagine are a few of the best ways to watch a movie like this. The three characters at the core of the story are all exactly who they need …The 1999 movie Sleepy Hollow is, to my mind, the film to watch during the transition from early autumn to the Halloween season.
It captures the dreary, de-saturated feeling you get, on the east coast of the U.S., anyway, when you realize there won’t be another day without a chill in the air for a few months.
It’s full of weirdness and dark humor, but one of my favorite exchanges in the movie is this:
Ichabod Crane: You have moved the body.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: I did.
Crane: You must never move the body!
Lancaster: Why not?
Crane: … Because…
Sunday, August 25, 2024
This review may contain spoilers. This is the first time watching it with the kids. They were enthralled from the initial sword fight on, though we did skip the fire swamp, the “Booooo!” lady, some torture, and much of the burning-giant-in-a-trenchcoat scene. To me, it’s still true that the idea …Sunday, August 25, 2024
This review may contain spoilers. This is the first time watching it with the kids. They were enthralled from the initial sword fight on, though we did skip the fire swamp, the “Booooo!” lady, some torture, and much of the burning-giant-in-a-trenchcoat scene. To me, it’s still true that the idea …Friday, June 7, 2024
I agree: it has its problems. Just one example: The phrase “hack everything” shouldn’t be uttered once in a serious movie, let alone two or three times, let alone by a real actor like Allison Janney. But it has heart and if it doesn’t make you cry once or twice you’re evil.Sunday, March 31, 2024
This short is, indeed, extremely cute. But it's also impressively executed in terms of the writing and the animation. Parenting pro-tip: Shorts like this one are good to keep handy for when you need to extinguish a tantrum without starting a longer watching session.Tuesday, July 25, 2023
This review may contain spoilers. Sure, it’s a couple hours of Tom Cruise being paid millions of dollars to do stunts literally everyone else in the world would have to pay millions of dollars to do. But nails the fan service, the tech, and the physics. And it’s fun. Also, it includes an appearance …Friday, July 21, 2023
This review may contain spoilers. A Predator movie is only as good as its protagonist. The dialogue can mostly suck, as it does here. The CG effects can look like trash, as they too often do here. The plot can be an early colonial-American choose-your-own-adventure story, as it (mostly) is here. But …Monday, May 22, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 out of 5 stars) This is the last one for today, I promise. Another rewatch, Sam Rockwell’s performance puts this movie on a level with The Martian. I know they’re very different movies, but, for my money, Moon does at just as much with fewer/older VFX and a much lower budget. How much …Monday, May 22, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4 out of 5 stars) I can confirm in watching this movie again that it is ambitious, original and has a fully committed cast. If you like sci-fi and somehow haven’t seen Annihilation yet, do yourself a favor and watch it.Sunday, May 21, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3 stars out of 5) I don’t regret watching this and I would certainly recommend it to certain people, but I’m not sure I’ll ever need to watch it again.Saturday, May 20, 2023
⭐️ (1 star out of 5 Wouldn’t watch again, wouldn’t recommend The story was incoherent except as a forced setup of Kang and of passing of the Ant-Man-tle to Lang’s daughter.Monday, September 27, 2021
It both is and is not the movie you think it is, and both in the best way.Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Sunshine Pieces Daniel Isn’t Real Near Dark Don’t Look Now Next Door Enter the Void High Tension Gaia The Greasy Strangler …plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Awful… awfully wonderfulSaturday, August 14, 2021
Awful family places burden of their livelihood on daughter for her entire life and finally decides to let her be her own kid as she leaves for college. It was good but it was kind of missing that one show stopping, jaw dropping song that the third act of any movie in this vein kind of demands.Friday, August 13, 2021
It’s worth a watch for the chemistry between the sisters - you don’t see a lot of effective portrayals of sisterhood in action movies - and David Harbour is a lot of fun. Edit: the pig scene was totally unnecessary and gross.Friday, August 6, 2021
A lot of people love this movie for the same reasons a lot of people hate this movie. It simultaneously shamelessly indulges in the same clichés and tropes that it’s constantly subverting. A lot of people just want it to pick whether it’s going to shamelessly indulge or it’s going to subvert but I …Saturday, July 31, 2021
The non sequitur implementation of the ending cost half a star but the film is visually stunning and narratively bold. I can’t say what movies clearly took inspiration from it without giving it away, but you’ll probably know right away after you watch it.Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Watched on Tuesday July 20, 2021.Tuesday, July 27, 2021
You will not know where it’s going until it gets there.Tuesday, July 27, 2021
The films watched by the FUMC, in order. Martyrs The Peanut Butter Solution Starry Eyes Cigarette Burns HereditaryTuesday, July 27, 2021
Watched for the FUMC.Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Well you should all watch it once. Watching it alone was disorientating and left me wishing I had someone to share the experience with but it was a hell of ride. Go in blind and don’t ask of it any more than it is.Saturday, July 24, 2021
I try to be stingy with 5 stars but this movie deserves it. The writing, direction, acting and SOUND DESIGN are as good as the first and in some areas even better. The main flaw that bugged me was SPOILER ALERT: The day one flashback was really only there to remind us who JK was on the first one …Friday, July 23, 2021
I watched a few of his shorts tonight but this was my favorite.Friday, July 23, 2021
There’s so much more to be told here.Friday, July 23, 2021
Yes it’s disturbing but there’s nothing supernatural about it.