So as I stated last week, I'm in mass catch-up mode before I put out my first edition of the Best of 2018 list (Part 1 here). So here's this weeks round-up: THE DEATH OF STALIN dir. Armando Iannucci From The Thick of It to In The Loop to his current HBO series Veep, Armando Iannucci has perfected the …
It seems only a few weeks ago that I was putting together my final list of the Best Films of 2017 (to be fair, that list did finally come out in April so it wasn't that long ago). But with us firmly entrenched in the month of August it's time for me to begin thinking of evaluating …
Just like the first Ant-Man movie came in the wake of the Avengers: Age of Ultron, the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp has once again drawn the short stick in taking the first post-Avengers: Infinity War slot. And like its predecessor, Ant-Man and the Wasp succeeds primarily because it refuses to compete with the gargantuan Infinity War and instead, in more ways than …
With the opening of Incredibles 2 picking-up immediately after the events of the original movie – which came out in 2005 – it provides a unique vista point for us to see just how far, and far away, Pixar have come from the heady days of their golden age of the first decade of the 21st century. …
For the past six weeks or so, my life has been almost entirely devoted to watching the World Cup. Ever since USA 1994 I find myself transfixed to the screen every four years as I try my very best to catch 64 international games as they happen (this year, thanks to the wonders of streaming …
Continue reading World Cup Withdrawal Remedy Plan: Football Documentaries
And so we've come to this: After 18 theatrical animated features, a slew of live-action features, countless shorts, TV specials, and exactly one theme park later, we arrive at the last movie Walt Disney produced before he passed away in 1966 from lung cancer. The last work of famous artists is frequently a footnote to …
Ten years ago I was living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is a lovely enough city but at the time boasted only a handful of cineplexes with all of them playing very-much the same thing. I had only just discovered Netflix DVDs (remember those) owing to the fact that I had only recently come out …
Continuing my never-ending quest of diving through all my Criterion movies, this month I decided to tackle a bunch of my screwball comedies. Of course given the enormous magnitude of my collection, I was only able to get through maybe half of my Criterion screwball comedies at best. To be fair, as the high number …
Continue reading Adventures in Criterion Vol. 2: Screwball Comedies
A lot has seemingly happened since the last time we checked in with Netflix. Most importantly they recently got into an epic battle with Cannes over the film festival's decision to disqualify any film from being in competition that did not have a planned theatrical distribution. This resulted in Netflix pulling all of its movies from …
(SPOILER ALERT: Obviously plot details are going to be discussed in this review and if you don't want any of them revealed to you, then stop reading and just go watch the movie. I'm not going to give away any major plot developments in this review and I will save that for a different post, but …
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