Totally Under Control (2020)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have not [...]
Totally Under Control (2020)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have not been able to go to movie theaters nor film festivals. So now, with the help of award-season screeners, this month I am catching up. Is it too early to begin chronicling the COVID-19 pandemic? Director Alex Gibney doesn’t seem to think so. Within the fast-paced panoply of […]
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (2020)
The story of the legendary D.B. Cooper has taken on a mythical status. After nearly 50 years, it seems to be that great unattainable true crime narrative that is as illusive as it is fascinating. It is a crime that seems impossible, but never-the-less was never solved. Who was D.B. Cooper, and whatever became of […]
Soul (2020)
A little over halfway through Disney Pixar’s Soul, I asked my wife, “Does this movie feel like it was made for kids?” Without a thought, she said, “Not at all.” I didn’t ask this question out of derision, only out of the curious fact that this is a movie about the existential meaning of one’s […]
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
There is a moment halfway through Wonder Woman 1984 in which I felt a heartbreaking tug of melancholia that had nothing to do with the film itself. Diana Prince and her now-undead lover Steve Trevor (don’t ask) are flying a plane over Washington D.C. in the midst of the Fourth of July fireworks celebration. The […]
The Pod Bay Doors – A Movie Podcast | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
This week, Doug and Jerry celebrate the Christmas holiday with one of Doug’s signature not-a-Christmas-movie Christmas movie with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983). This is a story of a P.O.W. camp on Java in 1942 and the struggle between culture (Japanese/British) and identity in that enclosed environment. It’s a daring exploration of wartime love and […]
‘The Stand’, Episode 1: ‘The End’
To take the journey of Stephen King’s 1978 uber-tome “The Stand” you have to sort of live in it. That’s not just because it is his longest book but because of the vast population of characters and plotlines that one has to traverse. It is an investment; you spend a great deal of time with […]
Pod Bay Doors V-Log – The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 16: The Rescue
Here we are! The Season Finale of The Mandalorian Season 2: Episode 8 Chapter 16 The Rescue. Mando gathers a crew to go after Moff Gideon and get Grogu back! Surprises! Thrills! Cuteness! Doug and Jerry wrap up the season with a discussion on Chapter 16 The Rescue, with a bit of a summing up […]
Finding Yingying (2020)
How big is the world?I want to measure the world with my feet. This sentence, written in the diary of 26-year-old graduate student Yingying Zhang, could only have been written by a person at a very particular time in their youth – old enough to still be touched by the magic of the world but […]
