MOVIE #1,917 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.21.24 In solidifying my quest to watch all the movies ever made, I think this Director Focus is a very f...
Wicked Little Letters
MOVIE #1,916 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.21.24 Watched this with my daughter after she mentioned that she read the book in school. The film w...
The One and Only Ivan
MOVIE #1,915 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.21.24 As previously mentioned, I saw Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters in Allentown and so that promp...
Me Before You
MOVIE #1,914 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.20.24 I saw this on the evening of Saturday, June 15th, 2024 at the Civic Theater of Allentown. There were...
Gasoline Rainbow
MOVIE #1,913 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.20.24 This is a short feature documentary (just north of an hour) about the making of the movie Wendy ...
MOVIE #1,912 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.20.24 This is really an amazing movie because it delivers upon its (very) high concept: what you are...
MOVIE #1,911 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.20.24 I thought this was gonna be more like a ‘making of’ about the experience of David Byrne organizi...
MOVIE #1,910 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.19.24 This is an especially interesting document given very recent developments in society (I hate eve...
MOVIE #1,909 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.19.24 I wasn't as engaged with this in the way 45365 hooked me in. But it still has plenty of bea...
MOVIE #1,908 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.19.24 A peek behind the curtains (no pun intended) of the real life and faces behind a gameshow cont...
MOVIE #1,907 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.19.24 This first film by the Ross Brothers is like a Wiseman doc without a specific focus of intere...
MOVIE #1,906 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 And so we close out these Seven Days of Dante with arguably the strangest work of his career, fitting...
Splatter
MOVIE #1,905 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 This short film starring Christopher Lloyd was part of a short-lived immersive attraction at vario...
Haunted Lighthouse
MOVIE #1,904 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 In stark contrast to the inspired brilliance of The Second Civil War , you can sense Dante's det...
The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
MOVIE #1,903 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 I was hoping to find one true hidden gem among the fairly extensive non-theatrical feature por...
The Second Civil War
MOVIE #1,902 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 On this final day of my week of Joe Dante, we will be looking at his three feature-length made-for...
Runaway Daughters
MOVIE #1,901 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 I believe this is the first amusement park pre-ride film I’ve ever reviewed at the site. This is u...
The Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror Pre Show Film
MOVIE #1,900 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 When this starts, it appears to be operating in the overtly political/satirical lane of Dante’s firs...
The Screwfly Solution
MOVIE #1,899 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 Dante made two short features for the much better known Showtime series Masters of Horrors (some of...
Homecoming
MOVIE #1,898 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 Dante's second short for the anthology series Night Visions is even less inspired than his first. B...
The Occupant
MOVIE #1,897 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 Like he did in the 80s, Joe Dante delivered multiple episodes for horror-oriented anthology TV shows i...
MOVIE #1,896 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.16.24 This was easily the biggest commitment I made during this week of A-Z Joe Dante viewing: I watched...
Eerie, Indiana
MOVIE #1,895 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.16.24 Dante’s second short film for Amazing Stories has to be one of the most famous episodes from ...