11 movies watched: Hail Caesar! All sorts of fun 50s movie studio stuff. Beyond the Lights How much of yourself do you have to trade for fame? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Good movie, [...]
A good second viewing, though I had to keep reminding myself that Margo Roth Spiegelman would soon exit stage left and leave me to enjoy the movie.* I enjoy watching the boys hanging out in this [...]
I’m going on record as saying that I remember my family watching this on VHS in 1987 and finding it hilarious.* And while it wasn’t knee-slapping funny, I laughed throughout this [...]
Eh, it was a little bit too “dramatic novel” and there was a little too much scene chewing by Eva Green. There were also two abrupt shifts in perspective–one of which explained [...]
So my mild infatuation with Oscar Issac continues.* I was surprised that I hadn’t heard of this movie, as it was quite good–tense in all the right places. It’s based on a [...]
Unlike the original, this movie fleshed out the back story and pointed me in a direction, so I knew what was supposed to be funny. There were the usual Farrelly Brothers gratuitous touches* and [...]
I only got this movie because the preview for Neighbors 2 both attracted and repelled me in a way that was interesting. And this movie is chock full of uncomfortable situations which beget [...]
Having seen the play, I knew what I was in for, and I had already experienced the claustrophobia that comes from being trapped in a small theater with George and Martha. This, the film felt [...]