MOVIE #1,947 • SCORE 10/10 • 09.05.24 SERIES: JAMES HONG A-Z ACTOR FOCUS (Ch. 29) As time goes on, and I continue to struggle with what...
Chinatown
MOVIE #1,946 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: CHRIS SMITH DIRECTOR FOCUS (FILL-IN) This sucked me in — what can I say? Smith clearly has...
MOVIE #1,945 • SCORE 10/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: JANE CAMPION DIRECTOR FOCUS I was perusing the Wiki for this before I watched and stumble...
MOVIE #1,944 • SCORE 8/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: SPIKE LEE DIRECTOR FOCUS I know these are important movies but some of the scenes where th...
Jungle Fever
MOVIE #1,943 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: MAYA DEREN DIRECTOR FOCUS Six minutes survive of this other unfinished Maya Deren film f...
Ensemble for Somnambulists
MOVIE #1,942 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: MAYA DEREN DIRECTOR FOCUS Unfinished film. A short fragment survives. Deren’s first fora...
MOVIE #1,941 • SCORE 9/10 • 09.03.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY This speaks more to my major blindspot re Hong Kong cinema, but I really l...
The Wicked City (1992)
MOVIE #1,940 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.03.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY This is an interesting one: essentially a lost film until a VHS surfaced o...
Wicked City (1998)
MOVIE #1,939 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.03.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY This is majorly disjointed but it's great in spots — little fragments wi...
Wicked City (1949)
MOVIE #1,938 • SCORE 8/10 • 09.03.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY To welcome back TWO FOR TUESDAY after a month break, we have a special FOUR...
Wicked City (1987)
MOVIE #1,937 • SCORE 9/10 • 09.02.24 SERIES: THE MARK BAUMER COLLECTION This 9-minute movie is essentially a compilation of the last tw...
MOVIE #1,936 • SCORE 8/10 • 09.02.24 SERIES: THE MARK BAUMER COLLECTION Special care is taken with the soundtrack here — which is reall...
MOVIE #1,935 • SCORE 9/10 • 09.02.24 SERIES: THE MARK BAUMER COLLECTION The most successful Baumer films (imo) are the ones where he spe...
MOVIE #1,934 • SCORE 8/10 • 09.02.24 SERIES: THE MARK BAUMER COLLECTION Mark utilizes some backwards video whilst having fun with a hand...
MOVIE #1,933 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.02.24 SERIES: THE MARK BAUMER COLLECTION After a break, we return to The Mark Baumer Collection for five m...
MOVIE #1,932 • SCORE 9/10 • 09.02.24 SERIES: FARLEY/ROXBURGH DIRECTOR FOCUS After taking a break from my regular serieses, it was nice t...
Metal Detector Maniac
MOVIE #1,931 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.02.24 SERIES: TRUE RANDOM (Vol. LXX) Welcome to September as we enter the best time of the year (autumn)....
Son of a Gun
MOVIE #1,926 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.23.24 Look, at risk of sounding like some kind of right-wing asshole (I’m not!), let me say that, while ...
Inside Out 2
MOVIE #1,928 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.23.24 The Minions/Despicable Me franchise (and to a lesser extent, Illumination productions on the whole...
Despicable Me 4
MOVIE #1,927 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.23.24 We continue with 2024 Kids Flick Friday with arguably the least heralded picture of the bunch. Thi...
The Garfield Movie
MOVIE #1,929 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.23.24 Yes, finally... NOT A KIDS FILM . I just wrote four of those reviews in a row, people. F...
Kinds of Kindness
MOVIE #1,921 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.22.24 I feel like I wanted to like this more than I actually did, and I’m really struggling to formu...
I Saw the TV Glow
MOVIE #1,925 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.23.24 This had all the pieces to be an enjoyable (enough) kids flick, but something just felt off. The pacin...
IF
MOVIE #1,923 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.23.24 Today on the site I’ll be doing an end-of-the-month catch-up on things I’ve watched separate from an...
Baby Reindeer
MOVIE #1,918 • 🍿 • 08.21.24 I really don’t feel like spending any time on this so I’ll try to be brief. This Netflix joint released earlie...
MOVIE #1,858 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.29.24 This one is not fresh in my mind. I recorded a podcast on the way home from the theater (below) so...
Civil War
MOVIE #1,685 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.31.24 I’m a big-time Patriots/Tom Brady hater so this might not seem like something I was itching to w...
MOVIE #1,686 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.31.24 Even though I have two young kids, I don’t go deep with the Kung Fu Panda franchise. I think both of...