(13 Total movies watched) Synecdoche, New York. Charlie Kaufmann’s weird (in the best way) movie was my favorite home-viewing experience this month. The Squid and the Whale. Every unhappy [...]
Movies I watched in 2018 that were just so good I think you should watch them too. Today’s (non) theme: Hodgepodge Dads with Daughters Movies with dad/daughter combinations seem to be more [...]
Adam McKay wants to include everything in Vice, and that is the number one thing that sinks the movie.* How much more successful would this film have been if it had just focused on one issue like [...]
I’m glad I watched Peter Farrelly’s Green Book in a theater, because it gave me further insight into who is really enjoying this movie.* Both Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen were [...]
Synecdoce, New York starts as a standard middle-age-white-guy picture, meaning things aren’t going well.* Then it takes an odd turn and I realized with a start that this is a Charlie [...]
Movies I watched in 2018 that were just so good I think you should watch them too. Today’s theme: funny, romantic, and romantically funny Romantic Comedy Renaissance Oh my goodness, [...]
We welcome Mimi Leder back to the directing fold with On the Basis of Sex, a movie that attempts to illuminate another step on the path to seeing women as people, in this case, via a tax law case [...]
Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale is very successful at creating trapped, uncomfortable, angry feelings which made this movie not fun to watch. Which it is not to say it wasn’t [...]