Category Archives: Film

16
Apr

30 Before 30: The Recap

Last year, I had just turned 29, and I was realizing how much my film education was sorely lacking. Sure, I’ve probably seen far more films than many of my friends will ever see, even if I stopped seeing movies … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Reviews | Tagged 13th, 400 blows, all about my mother, beau travail, blow-up, breathless, daughters of the dust, days of heaven, dead man, eight and a half, eve's bayou, fly, hard boiled, king of comedy, man with a movie camera, meek's cutoff, modern times, monsoon wedding, my neighbor totoro, near dark, new leaf, paths of glory, piano, red shoes, seventh seal, steamboat bill jr, uncle boonmee, virgin suicides, wings of desire, woman under the influence | Comments Off

6
Apr

Things I Wrote: February and March 2018

So I failed to keep up with this two months in a row, so here’s a refresher on my published works for February and March. REVIEWS Entanglement – Fresh Fiction The Party – Fresh Fiction Gringo – College Movie Review A Wrinkle in … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Reviews | Tagged entanglement, gringo, isle of dogs, love simon, pacific rim uprising, party, ready player one, wrinkle in time | Comments Off

1
Apr

Streaming Picks: April 2018

FILMS Top Picks 50/50 – Hulu 4/1 Mystery Team – Amazon 4/1 The Florida Project – Amazon 4/1 (Academy Award nominee) Call me indecisive, but I just couldn’t pick between all these films, which I adore for different reasons. 50/50 … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 3 percent, 4th company, 50/50, 6 balloons, 78/52, aggretsuko, amateur, amo, augie, behind the curtain, bill nye, black sails, bobby kennedy for president, bosch, boss baby, call the midwife, candy jar, carmichael show, chalet, charite, chef's table, come sunday, crossing, dealt, despicable me 3, dina, dope, dude, fary, fastest car, florida project, greg davies, handmaid's tale, hilarity for charity, honeymoon stand-up special, i am not an easy man, into the night, jane the virgin, kevin james, kodachrome, la piloto, letdown, lost in space, loving vincent, lucas lauriente, magic school bus, mercury 13, merlin, missing, money heist, my next guest needs no introduction, mystery team, national treasure, new legends of monkey, orbiter 9, permanent, pickpockets, preacher, psychokinesis, ram dass, red rock, relationtrip, seth rogen, so b it, spy kids, take my nose please, thousand junkies, tiny shoulders, todrick hall, tragedy girls, troy, vikings, wakfu, week of | Comments Off

3
Mar

My Dream Oscar Ballot 2018

For the first time ever, I’d seen every nominee in all eight major categories by the time of awards ceremony. But as per usual, I was way behind on documentaries, foreign language films and animated features (not to mention shorts), … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars | Tagged baby driver, big sick, blade runner 2049, call me by your name, darkest hour, disaster artist, dunkirk, florida project, get out, good time, greatest showman, guardians of the galaxy, i tonya, kong skull island, lady bird, logan, lost city of z, molly's game, mother, mudbound, patti cakes, phantom thread, post, shape of water, star wars, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder woman, wonderstruck | Comments Off

2
Mar

Oscar Guide 2018

Guys, I just don’t know. With a real lack of consensus around this year’s crop of nominees, there’s no one film you can point to and say: “That’s the one to beat.” So what’s going to happen Sunday night? Sure, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged abacus, all the money in the world, beauty and the beast, big sick, blade runner 2049, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, dunkirk, faces places, fantastic woman, ferdinand, florida project, get out, greatest showman, guardians of the galaxy, i tonya, icarus, insult, kong skull island, lady bird, last men in aleppo, logan, loveless, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, mudbound, on body and soul, phantom thread, post, roman j israel esq, shape of water, square, star wars, strong island, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder | Comments Off

1
Mar

Oscar Re-Do: 1997

Now that I’m far enough away from the years when I was growing up (*gulp*), I figured this would be a good year to stretch back from the years before 2000, when I started my annual re-do column. 1997 was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Reviews | Tagged apostle, as good as it gets, jackie brown, la confidential, titanic | Comments Off

1
Mar

Streaming Picks: March 2018

FILMS Top Pick Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Amazon and Hulu 3/1 One of the funniest comedies of the ’80s, with Steve Martin as a low-level American con artist learning the ropes from British sophisticate Michael Caine. But they meet their … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 21 thunder, adel karam, aftermath, aico incarnation, alexa and katie, almost friends, amazing world of gumball, angie tribeca, b the beginning, bad guys, benji, bitter harvest, blade of the immortal, borderliner, brad's status, bridge, closing gambit, collateral, color of magic, crooked house, departure, dinotrux, dirty rotten scoundrels, durrels in corfu, edha, eurotrump, first match, flames, flint town, food wars, gad elmaleh, game over man, ghoul, girl incarcerated, habit, happy anniversary, hard sun, human trafficking, ice mother, imperium, in search of fellini, infinite worlds of hg wells, jessica jones, kc undercover, ladies first, law and order special victims unit, law and order svu, layla m, legacy of a whitetail deer hunter, let there be light, little hours, love, love and saucers, malena pichot, march of the penguins 2, mechanism, miraculous, my next guest needs no introduction, nailed it, natalia valdebenito, nut job 2, odyssey, on my block, outsider, power rangers, project eden, rapture, reboot, remix, requiem, ricky gervais, roxanne roxanne, santa clarita diet, septiembre, series of unfortunate events, sneaky pete, sofia nino de rivera, son, spirit, square, standups, stretch armstrong, suitable girl, swordgai, tabula rasa, terrace house, thirst street, this old house, titan, tommy's honour, trailer park boys, trolls, trump, tunnel, valerian, veni vidi vici, voltron, wild wild country, wolf warrio 2, world's most extraordinary homes | Comments Off

28
Feb

Oscar Re-Do: 2007

You know the drill: Winners in bold, then we break it down. BEST PICTURE Atonement Juno Michael Clayton No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood Should have won: No complaints here Not even nominated: Zodiac The debate still … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Reviews | Tagged away from her, i'm not there, juno, no country for old men, persepolis, there will be blood | Comments Off

5
Feb

Things I Wrote: January 2018

I’ve been doing a terrible job at linking out to things I’ve written for other sites, and that changes this year. So each month, I’ll do a round-up of articles and reviews I’ve contributed to other places. Here’s this month’s: REVIEWS … Continue reading →

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1
Feb

Streaming Picks: February 2018

FILMS Top Picks Manhunter – Amazon and Hulu 2/1 Mute – Netflix 2/23 The former is Michael Mann’s excellent adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon (aka the first time we saw Hannibal Lecter onscreen, played indelibly by Brian Cox). It’s easily … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged absentia, altered carbon, archer, atomic puppets, ballad of lefty brown, bates motel, beach rats, broad city, brockmire, cardinal, coach snoop, cougar town, deep undercover, derren brown, detroit, dirt, dragons, el vato, emoji movie, everwood, everything sucks, expanse, fate apocrypha, first team, forgotten, frankenstein chronicles, fred armisen, gary unmarried, good time, grand prix driver, greenhouse academy, human flow, imposters, irreplaceable you, jeepers creepers 3, joel mchale, kavin jay, logan lucky, long road home, looming tower, love per square foot, lucky, luna petunia, manhunter, marlon wayans, marseille, mozart in the jungle, mute, my next guest needs no introduction, nightcap, on body and soul, once upon a time, parenthood, perception, pjs, queer eye, remind, ritual, seeing allred, seven seconds, sin senos si hay paraiso, stinky and dirty, thunderbirds are go, tick, tom of finland, trader, ugly delicious, valor, villainess, when we first met, z nation | Comments Off