MOVIE #1,330 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 I just realized what a sausage party all these Dahl films are. There are almost no female acto...
Poison
MOVIE #1,329 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 While some of Anderson's patented tricks are deployed in this series, like some clever and...
MOVIE #1,328 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 The great Ralph Fiennes plays Roald Dahl in these short films as a clever framing device but, ...
MOVIE #1,327 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 This is the centerpiece of Anderson's four Roald Dahl shorts he made for Netflix in 2023. ...
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
MOVIE #1,220 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.02.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS Today I am starting a new weekly series that will run every Thurs...
Asteroid City
MOVIE #1,230 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.09.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS The third installment of this starring Geoffrey Wright was an incoher...
The French Dispatch
MOVIE #1,240 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 11.16.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS This is a movie about how all dogs in Japan are white people and all Japanese...
Isle of Dogs
MOVIE #1,250 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 11.23.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS The next two films in this reverse chronological Director Focus o...
The Grand Budapest Hotel
MOVIE #1,326 • 🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 A Grand Budapest precursor, this is a Prada advert. Anderson has in fact done many long(ish) commercials ov...
MOVIE #1,324 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 These are essentially DVD extras/promos for Moonrise Kingdom but it's good to see Schwartzma...
MOVIE #1,324 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 Bob Balaban introduces Suzy’s character reading bits from her six favorite books which are the...
MOVIE #1,260 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.30.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS Doing this Wes Anderson series in reverse chronological order has b...
Moonrise Kingdom
MOVIE #1,269 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 12.07.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS After the last two movies I reviewed used popular music so sparsely...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
MOVIE #1,280 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 12.14.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS Along with Rushmore , this is one that I rewatched just last year...
The Darjeeling Limited
MOVIE #1,323 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 Until his recent (2023) batch of Ronald Dahl adaptations, this feels like the lone proper short of...
MOVIE #1,280 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 12.21.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS This is Anderson’s goofiest movie and/or his most playful, and that’s...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
MOVIE #1,300 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 12.28.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS In many ways, early Wes Anderson feels like the purest Wes Anders...
The Royal Tenenbaums
MOVIE #1,304 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 12.31.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS What can I say about this film? A movie I’ve seen probably a doze...
Rushmore
MOVIE #1,305 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 12.31.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS While the beginnings of Anderson’s notorious style are here, it'...
Bottle Rocket
MOVIE #1,322 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.29.24 The black and white — as well as the editing and just a general vibe — contribute to an aesthetic ...