Hello, Dankness (2023)
The value of experimental filmmaking is in challenging [...]
Tag: three-and-a-half
Revoir Paris (2023)
The other day my local news reported a memorial for a mass shooting. I asked my wife a startling question, “Which mass shooting are they talking about?” She didn’t know. There have been so many lately that I can’t tell one from another. It is startling to think that they have become part of our […]
Creed III (2023)
My nerves jangle every time a new extension of the Rocky series comes around. Will this be the one to kill the series? I have seen it happen before – Rocky IV! Rocky V! When will it run out of energy? Fortunately, ever since Stallone decided to bring the series back down to Earth with […]
Girl Picture (2022)
I learned early in my life, thanks to the late-great World Book encyclopedia, that there are some parts of the northern world in which the sun never rises above the horizon for several months out the year. The closer that you are to the Arctic Circle, the longer the period will last. This is something […]
The Day After (1983)
[This is a repost of a review of ‘The Day After’ that I did in 2013 on the film’s 30th anniversary, reposted here on the occasion of the new documentary ‘Television Event’] Perhaps the biggest takeaway from ABC’s multi-million-dollar armageddon scare-drama The Day After is to question its purpose. What are we really seeing here and […]
I, Tonya (2017)
I don’t really give much thought to Tonya Harding. To be honest, there really isn’t much to think about. I know the bare bones of her 25 year-old scandal which I hardly paid attention to even then. I know she was tossed out of the United States Figure Skating Association over an assault on Nancy […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Let’s talk about Baby Groot. He’s precious. You could watch his antics all day. He’s like a cute puppy, he could be the star of a series of YouTube videos where you watch him do anything. Clearly the people behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 know what they have in Baby Groot. They understood it the […]
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
I’m sorry, but if you don’t think that King Kong fighting a giant octopus is exciting, then you don’t have a pulse. Kong: Skull Island is the best time I’ve had at an action movie in quite a long time. Here is a movie that I didn’t approach with a lot of anticipation — monster […]
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #5: De Palma (2015)
Brian De Palma was one of the pillars of the New Hollywood that flourished in the late 60s and early 70s, the time when the studio system was breaking down along with the production code. The moviegoing public was getting bored with the dusty old product that the Hollywood elders were pumping out and so […]
