They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for November, 2018
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
My musical tastes came of age in the early 1980s, arguably a difficult time for rock and roll – long after the corporate structure had taken the life out of this branded anthem of the youth culture that flourished in the 50s, peaked in the 70s and by then by the 80s had been so […]
The Pod Bay Doors Podcast, Episode #73: Superman III (1983)
This episode wraps up the 2nd Annual Turkey Month with another stinker. This time, Jerry and Doug pick over the carcass of Superman III (1983), otherwise known as Richard Pryor’s Superman. Of all that can be said of any other Superman movie, this is the only one that treats him as an afterthought. Doug would […]
Collette (2018)
If Colette earns any kind of affection from Oscar come Spring, it will no doubt be for two things, one is Kiera Knightly who gives her best performance in years, and for the film’s glorious look. In large part, the look of the film is what stays with you, particularly the contrast between the candle-lit […]
Disobedience (2018)
I suppose there exists in me a certain affection for stories about passion that aren’t afraid to be overstated. I mean, why mince words? Disobedience opens with such a moment, as the respected Rabbi Rav Krushka of an Orthodox Jewish congregation in London gives an effecting sermon about the tricky place that human beings occupy […]
Science Fair (2018)
As a veteran underachiever, I could only imagine in vivid dreams what the kids featured in the Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster’s documentary Science Fair must be going through. The idea of being in high school or junior high and pushing yourself against stiff international competition to be the best in a field populated by […]
The Pod Bay Doors Podcast, Episode 72: Collateral Beauty (2016)
This week, Doug and Jerry sit through a grief-porn stuffed turkey named Collateral Beauty. This has way too many big name stars to be bad, yet it manages to be stunningly awful. Sit back and remember that someone actually made a holiday movie that revolved around the death of a child and corporate fraud. Also, […]
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
When all was said and done, after all of the portents and secrets had been revealed and the overelaborate special effects employed for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald had ceased, I sat back in my seat trying to figure out how to best describe this movie in one word. Wandering through the vast dictionary […]
