(13 movies/TV shows watched) (January. A month with two three-day weekends) Two months later and I find myself still wanting to re-watch this. Pitch perfect A classic that is good. Says so many [...]
I wasn’t going to like this movie and I didn’t.* As I told my workmate: I don’t do torture and I don’t do animals in peril and this movie had a lot of both. However, in [...]
I found this to be a nice, solid drama with great performances all around. After I’ve seen a film, I try not to read other people’s reviews before I’ve written mine. In this [...]
Even though this is written and directed by a man, I think this is the kind of film we would see a lot more of, if more women were in charge in Hollywood. Here, you’ve got a good [...]
Thanks to the excellent Mudbound, I found Dee Rees and was able to see her first film, which is an excellent portrayal of a young woman’s coming of age; one complicated when she [...]
This 1937 version* is yet another 1930s movie that is fabulous to watch.** In this non-musical version, Janet Gaynor is charming as the fresh-faced aspiring actress while Fredric March charms as [...]
A “classic film” that is gripping to watch, rather than something to be gotten through so you can check it off your list. Henry Fonda is good, but Jane Darwell as Ma Joad steals [...]
He’s a straight white male mostly telling stories from the limited perspective of well-off, neurotic straight white males.* So why do I find his movies so delightful, more often than [...]