15 movie watched (summer!) Alt-present Hard and good A quality Sunday Afternoon Movie Different than I thought, and better than I thought So many good scenes in this movie Amnesia works well for [...]
While I fell asleep several times during Flash Gordon, I always enjoy looking at the practical effects of the pre-CGI world. The acting was mostly terrible (exception: Timothy Dalton), but [...]
In the Bourne Supremacy we find out more pieces of Jason Bourne’s* past and watch him work through some forgiveness things. The action was well paced and made sense** and there were at [...]
Tig Notaro is a master of making me like her so much I want to protect her while also making me somewhat uncomfortable during her comedy specials. So was it with this special during the end bit [...]
In Alex Lehmann’s Blue Jay, a chance hometown meeting of high school sweethearts launches this two-people-walking-and-talking-style story that you like or you don’t.* Tentative in [...]
Various problems with DVDs and many holds at the library meant that watching High Noon was a long time coming. However, once I successfully did press play, I was thrilled to find that this is a [...]
Into everyone’s life some not-very-good movies must come,* and this falls in the not-good category. I think what it was lacking was the spark that made me want to root for the characters, [...]
It was fun to revisit this film and the Ocean’s 11 gang, especially since I had forgotten all but a few details of the plot. The European locations were gorgeously filmed and the heist was [...]