Kanopy. Quality films for free. Here are five movies I’ve loved that you can watch right now. For free! Five Really Great Movies on Kanopy Now Night Moves. I call this Kelly [...]

The Last Thing He Wanted Directed by Dee ReesWritten by Marco Villalobos, Dee Rees The review: This was the kind of subpar movie where even analyzing what went wrong didn’t make it more fun. I [...]

Loser Directed by Amy HeckerlingWritten by Amy Heckerling The review: This is an excellent chronicle* of not fitting in** and has a killer 2000-era soundtrack.*** While I found the performances [...]

Five really great movies at Redbox right now: There’s nothing new to report on the Redbox front. I’ve still got the problem of movies not really being released. But I do have five new [...]

Shithouse Directed by Cooper RaiffWritten by Cooper Raiff The review: Movies that capture transition periods are my favorite, especially of those that capture transitions around college,* so I [...]

(11 total films watched) (2 re-watched) As you can see, October was a great movie-watching month! Re-watched: 13th The Trial of the Chicago 7 Saving Face When your mom comes to live with you. The [...]

Adrift Directed by Baltasar KormákurWritten by Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell, and David Brandson Smith The review: I think one has to be in a certain mood to watch survival-at-sea-type films, and [...]

Rebecca (1940) Directed by Alfred HitchcockWritten by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison The review: Rebecca has the usual problems one runs into with a film older than my [...]

The Trial of the Chicago 7 Directed by Aaron SorkinWritten by Aaron Sorkin The review: It’s baby boomer nostalgia written and directed by our favorite walking and talking baby boomer: Aaron [...]

Shithouse Directed by Cooper RaiffWritten by Cooper Raiff The review: Movies that capture transition periods are my favorite, especially of those that capture transitions around college,* so I [...]

Songs My Brothers Taught Me Directed by Chloé ZhaoWritten by Chloé Zhao The review: Depictions of Rez Life are rare in film, and it’s saying something that a Chinese director, not an American, [...]

Rebecca (2020) Directed by Ben WheatleyWritten by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapenel, Anna Waterhouse The review: While this new version of Rebecca brings us the story of the second Mrs. de Winter in [...]

The Last Thing He Wanted Directed by Dee ReesWritten by Marco Villalobos, Dee Rees The review: This was the kind of subpar movie where even analyzing what went wrong didn’t make it more fun. I [...]

Loser Directed by Amy HeckerlingWritten by Amy Heckerling The review: This is an excellent chronicle* of not fitting in** and has a killer 2000-era soundtrack.*** While I found the performances [...]

The Words Directed by Brian Klugman and Lee SternthalWritten by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal The review: In 2012, the trailer for this film was paired with every movie I watched in theaters [...]