Reviews from the big and small screen
What a month! The pandemic spiraled on and Trump raged against the dying of his coup. The holidays felt pretty much the same as the last 10 months – lots of quality, in person time with my dishwasher, but only seeing friends & family on zoom. Plus, I had a root canal and my car […]
Read More 2020 Catch-up: December“I know the past is the past/ Then again, the present’s nothing without it/ I feel fine, don’t even feel sad about it.” Ezra Furman, Love You So Bad In 1977, a maintenance worker and father of three in Muncie, Indiana interrupts his family meal to build a tower of mashed potatoes on his dinner […]
Read More Existential Despair and Time Loops – 90s Kids Scifi Comes of Middle AgeKids are weird. Most kids. All kids, maybe? Before external pressures and internal anxieties combine to extinguish their spirits, kids revel in their most outlandish ideas, they’ll explain their looniest schemes to whoever will listen. But they don’t usually stay that way for long. Those who can retain that joyful weirdness past their “little kid” […]
Read More The Way She Was: In Shirkers Sandi Tan Looks Back at a Youth Filled with Creative Passion and Personal BetrayalsWeek 1: Arthouse Horror from the last five years Week 2: 70s/80s Classics Catch-up Week 3: Favorite Scares Rewatch Week Week 4: What We Become -Possessions & Creatures Watch along with me…if you dare!
Read More 31 Days of Horror: The PlanAt first, two words kept me from getting excited about A Simple Favor, prior to it’s release: mommy. blogger. Or maybe it’s technically “vlogger” as Anna Kendrick’s character, Stephanie, runs a youtube site where she videos herself doing all sorts of domestic things – making cupcakes, crafting crafts – to share with other moms. Now […]
Read More A Simple Favor between friends? In Paul Feig’s new thriller, it’s an ice cold martini and an easy out.Late-September certainly isn’t the midpoint of the year, but for movie-goers it marks a transition of sorts. From January till then is when studios unload the “rest” of their catalogue – weird indies, broad comedies, superhero packed blockbusters and understated sci-fi masterpieces. Then, come fall, there’s a shift toward the serious and stately. The approach […]
Read More 2018 so far – my favorite films of the yearI watched A LOT of movies in July and I’m super happy about that. Gonna start sharing my week in Letterboxd reviews here to keep everyone updated. Monday, July 23rd Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) rented for a few bucks on Amazon Prime ‘part of a M:I marathon rewatch to prepare for Fallout. These […]
Read More 7.22 Letterboxd Week in ReviewRachel McAdams is having a good year. And probably every year is a good year for her in a lot of ways – she’s famous, rich, in a lot of movies – but what I mean is that this year she’s in two films that actually put her impressive range of talents to good use. […]
Read More Do Not Pass Go: Game Night is 2018’s Best Comedy You Might Have Missed“Zombies? How 2011.” That was a friend’s response to me telling them about Cargo, a new Netflix original movie that debuted on the streaming site last Friday. Originally conceived as a short film and then expanded into feature-length by Australian co-directors Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, Cargo does indeed fall into a familiar category. You know, the “post-nearly-apocolyptic-event […]
Read More An old world’s violent end in the Australian zombie flick CargoHey, you there – sitting on the couch trying to distract yourself from the trashfire current events of 2018. Question for you. Why aren’t you watching Barry? Why You Probably Aren’t: I mean I don’t know, maybe you are?? The truth is that despite being a dear, old friend, TV and I just aren’t as close as […]
Read More Why Aren’t You Watching: Barry
The Screen and I 