(13 movies watched) (One twice) The Kindergarten Teacher Frustrated artist as mentor Hello I Must Be Going Melanie Lynski! Sleeping with Other People No way around it, this is a quality film. (It [...]
In Us, Jordan Peele has crafted a taut, creepy thriller that kept me gasping and guessing right up until the credits rolled; and then the questions rolled in.* It’s very clear that Peele is [...]
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising was a great film, by which I mean it made me laugh very hard when I watched the preview and then even harder when I watched the film. And behind this dumb comedy are [...]
God bless Doug Liman for making this time capsule of my mid-90s early adulthood experience which captures accurately the casual misogyny, homophobia, and general assholishness of the decade.* [...]
I’d missed out on Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3, and Filmspotting motivation helped catch me up.* I was happy to find a really fun prison-break narrative undertaken by the gang of toys, [...]
I’m the first to admit that in Fighting with My Family, director Stephen Merchant has created an incredibly predictable film with one too many of many things (training montages, dog [...]
Eva Vives takes a chance in All About Nina, giving us a character who, being female, is easily slotted into that female-dominated category of “unlikable.” Mary Elizabeth Winstead [...]
I’ve had a good run of Haley Lu Richardson and director Justin Baldoni’s Five Feet Apart continued that trend. While on one hand, it’s your standard teen love drama (of the [...]