The Pod Bay Doors - A Movie Podcast | The Godfather, Coda: "The Death of Michael Corleone" (2020)
This episode, Jerry and Doug end the year [...]
Author Archive: Jerry Roberts
Jerry Roberts is a film critic and operator of two websites, Armchair Cinema and Armchair Oscars.
‘WandaVision’ is a tasty, if baffling, little MCU treat.
WandaVision is a new nine-part series premiering today on Disney+. This review covers only the first two episodes. How did the song go? “There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” That’s pretty much the feeling that you get from WandaVision, a sometimes clever and sometimes baffling new nine-part series that has the […]
Pod Bay Doors Movie Podcast: The Movies of 2020
In this special episode, while Jerry and Doug watch nothing but screeners and are getting the films for upcoming episodes, they discuss all those new 2020 movies that were released. Yes, all those films that were released streaming or possibly in the theater during that hellscape of a year. #2020 #AllInTheFightforDemocracy #Ammonite #AthleteA #CripCamp #Da5Bloods […]
Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
Wild Mountain Thyme is one of those confectionary baubles that takes up an hour or two of your time, does little to nothing important and then starts exiting your brain twenty minutes before it is over. I’ve just seen it and I find that I have to write this review rather quickly before it completely […]
The Midnight Sky (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. What happened to George Clooney? More than ten years ago he started his directorial career with two brilliant bio-pics, Confessions of a Dangerous […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (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. Of all the misfit circumstances wrought by the troubling year of 2020, one of the cruelest was the unexpected farewell of Chadwick Boseman. […]
I’m Your Woman (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. I love good exploitation, but I must admit that I have a general distaste for homages the exploitation. Some things just can’t be […]
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 […]
