June 13 movies watched A New Leaf Elaine May’s dark romantic comedy lives up to my youthful remembrances. A Place in the Sun Great mid-20th century class commentary and a good argument for [...]
New Feature! Because I watch so many movies, I thought it would be handy to have a summary at the end of the month of my top movies of that month. These are movies I watched during the month [...]
While the movie shelves are loaded with whiny male protagonists whose lives fall apart and they retreat to somewhere/something to recover, there are fewer of these stories about women. So it was [...]
While not as funny as the first time I watched it, (the surprise factor was gone) I still enjoyed this sequel making fun of sequels. This time I greatly anticipated the Mr. & Mrs. Smith [...]
Possibly the best movie about being a teenage boy since Kings of Summer. It’s funny, it’s moving, it’s set in present day and has a 90s hip hop soundtrack. [...]
It was interesting to revisit this film 25 years after I first watched it. Overall, I don’t think the narrative held up, though I think Edward Scissorhands is such an iconic character, [...]
While I would not have cast John Cusack as Brian Wilson (they seem to be two quite different people features-wise) I can say that after a while I stopped being distracted by his inability to look [...]
I never saw this movie in the theater because I was somewhat “eh” on the subject matter. However, it didn’t quite go the way I thought it would go and John Hawkes was [...]