Haven't done one of these in a long time, so it feels a little weird. These may be short or long, depending on the film.

( La Chinoise (1967) )

January
Nothing :(

February
Birds of Prey (2020)
Hustlers (2019)
Ready or Not (2019) - I've seen a lot of excellent films from 2019 but this may be one of my personal favorites (along with Parasite).

MarchEmma. (2020 ( Read more... )

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I should precede this by saying that I saw Blade Runner 2049 last year and it blew me away. Blade Runner is one of my favorite films, and I feel as though 2049 is on par . . . or even slightly better? I had a lot of thoughts about it after watching and jotted them all down immediately in the usual feverish rush that comes with thought-provoking ( Read more... )

I never really thought this year would ever come. Weird. I'll have a hard time saying 2019, or 2020 for that matter.

I've already seen an excellent film on the first day of 2019!

( 2019 Films )

Films seen this week:
Vampyr (1932)
Sans Soleil (1983)
Le Bonheur (1965)
Stalker (1979)
Lady Snowblood (1973)

( Vampyr (1932) )

I was feeling awful today. And with the news that Denis Villeneuve will be adapting Frank Herbert's Dune with Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides, I am strangely and weirdly excited about Dune! In fact, this story I read off of Wikipedia made my misery dissipate. Going into this story, what you need to know is that bizzaro director extraordinaire ( Read more... )

When the sequel to the 1996 film Jumanji was announced, I was annoyed. Another sequel. Another cash-in now that kids from the 90's are all grown up and want to relive any possible nostalgia they can find. This felt especially prickly due to how soon this announcement came after Robin Williams' passing. There was a great, manic joy he brought to ( Read more... )

I forget sometimes how much I absolutely adore the Criterion Collection. No other company has rendered films that evoke profound emotions out of me in such a beautiful and admirable way. (What other company could bring me a film as fantastic as Judex?) When Filmstruck was launched, I joined immediately with the intention that I would watch every ( Read more... )

When mother! was first released, it sounded like a film that I would have enjoyed immensely. I was excited to hear about the polarized reactions to it, as nothing seems to please me more than a polarizing film. Going into mother!, I expected to feel intense emotions as I did when I watched director Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. Instead, my ( Read more... )