Gavin O’Conner’s Warrior is the greatest sports movie ever made. I want to get this out of the way because I go a little bit nutty when I see Happy Gilmore and Dodgeball — funny enough, but still — make Vulture’s Top 50 Sports Movies list … a list that failed to include Warrior, for reasons we can […]
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, (Nehushtan) and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” – Numbers 21:8 “You’re the disease, and I’m the cure.”– Detective Marion Cobretti It’s easy to be dismissive of […]
I’m guilty of choosing 98% of the movies we watch at home. In my defense, all but a few of the films aren’t curtailed to my wife’s intellectual proclivities. I know her tastes. But does she understand mine? Occasionally, I still feel the need to exercise my right to be the papa-bear. In futile displays […]
The Plot: This is a film about cranking. A film about spanking. A film where a harmless female hardware store employee runs afoul of an affluent pervert and is beaten into a sexual scrapheap. This is not your mom’s battered collection of Harlequin Romance novels. This is… Fifty Shades of Grey. The Film: In case […]
Author’s note: During the last three months while I was busy compiling and writing this list we had a serious issue with a 450lb black bear raiding our farm for livestock, (a run-in at 2am with this big boy wherein all I had was my double barrel and definitely the wrong ammunition nearly stopped my heart in my […]
Zombieland Double Tap Directed by Ruben Fleischer The encouraging thing about Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland Double Tap arriving in theaters a full seven years after any fans of the original film expected some sort of sequel – and arriving after his Marvel misfire, Venom – is that we simply have no expectations for this sequel. It […]
THE LIGHTHOUSE DIRECTED BY: Robert Eggers THE FILM: I mean it’s a film set on a single location – the titular lighthouse – with only two characters, filmed in claustrophobic 33:1 aspect ratio black and white, how interesting can a movie with this many handicaps actually be..? After seeing The Lighthouse I would argue… mostly. Mostly interesting. The plot […]
Forgive me, trying something new. Since I’ll be seeing most films now on Thursday night – the eve of the heavily brokered opening weekend – I find myself short on time to write anything resembling (rambling – fair to say) three thousand word essays on the latest plum to fall from the Hollywood plum tree. […]
DIRECTED BY: CHAD STAHELSKI THE FILM: As much as we collectively seem to adore Keanu Reeves and this latest treasure cache of John Wick movies I couldn’t honestly tell you right now if I think he’s a decent actor. And frankly it really doesn’t matter in 2019. His likability crossed the helix of his ability around […]
Reflecting on 2018 I can only admit that for most of the year the box office was a static place for me. Nothing Hollywood released (save one film listed below) moved me for most of the first half of 2018. The thought did cross my mind that maybe I’m just not that into this anymore? […]