I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have not [...]
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (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. WOW! So here goes . . . Charlie Kaufman has never failed to be intriguing. His films are like little puzzle boxes that […]
Dick Johnson is Dead (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. Some people seem more prepared for the inevitabilities of life than others. Take, for example, Dick Johnson, a Seattle-based former psychiatrist and Seventh […]
The Pod Bay Doors – A Movie Podcast | The Godfather, Coda: “The Death of Michael Corleone” (2020)
This episode, Jerry and Doug end the year with a look at Francis Ford Coppola’s recent re-edit of The Godfather Part III, now retitled The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, which was Coppola’s original title for the film in 1990, but Paramount would have none of it. Now he’s re-ordered scenes and created […]
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 […]
