- on F1 (2025):
Spiderhead reeks. “rehydrating the raisin” is funny. I appreciate the observation about sports and war movie ouroboros. This is about…
Jan 21, 18:35
- on The Blackening (2022):
Hi-diddle-hi-de-die Murderinos! Since I’m neither a fan of the Slasher genre nor a Black American the film might well have…
Jan 21, 08:29
- on Wicked (2024):
The Goods: giving half-hearted pans of blockbuster slop so you don’t have to watch it since 2020
Jan 16, 09:05
- on Wicked (2024):
A mutual friend of ours, a big movie fan and one who has generally resisted my laments that modern cinema…
Jan 15, 15:46
- on Eternity (2025):
I definitely should give The Good Place another shot. And I hope Eternity works better for you than it did…
Jan 12, 20:21
- on Eternity (2025):
You really should. IMO, the series finale earns every bit of the hype around it. Though I did prefer S2-3…
Jan 12, 20:04
- on My OFCS Nominating Ballot (2025):
DCOM representation in legitimate awards bodies. That’s why I’m here. ✊
Jan 11, 14:54
- on My OFCS Nominating Ballot (2025):
You really did put Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4 in as your top pick for choreography, you actual madman.
Jan 11, 13:03
- on Eternity (2025):
It is now occurring to me that the Lubitsch aside I read was probably a reference to Heaven Can Wait,…
Jan 11, 09:18
- on Eternity (2025):
I did feel like I was being a grump about a good-natured original story, so maybe follow your instincts and…
Jan 11, 09:15
- on Eternity (2025):
I dunno, the one Lubitsch movie I’ve seen that I don’t like is in fact his celestial bureaucracy movie (not…
Jan 10, 02:22
- on Mulholland Dr. (2001):
If IMDB Trivia for this film is to be believed, the Betty/Diane character of wanting to become a big star…
Jan 8, 15:12
- on Memento (2000):
Memento remains one my challenging favourites, not least for the rather beguiling performance from Guy Pearce (Even though he went…
Jan 8, 14:03
- on Eternity (2025):
I thought the trailer for this was vaguely interesting, but comparisons to Wish. Lol, oof.
Jan 8, 09:47
- on The Train (1964):
One of the great WWII films and from a railway standpoint, an unforgettable feast of steam. The entire cast, direction,…
Jan 7, 23:38
- on Podcast Episode: Dear Christmas (2020) ft. Brennan Klein – A cookie-cutter Christmas:
Happy New Year, ED! 2026 gotta be a good one. We’re overdue as a human race, right? (Honestly, both 2024…
Jan 1, 21:56
- on Podcast Episode: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and Christmas Carol roulette – I’m thinking of beginning things:
An even more belated happy holidays to you, ED! I hope you are well! Ha, I haven’t even heard of…
Jan 1, 21:53
- on Podcast Episode: Dear Christmas (2020) ft. Brennan Klein – A cookie-cutter Christmas:
A very happy new year to you – may AD 2026 deliver THE GOODS just as well as your own…
Jan 1, 08:13
- on Podcast Episode: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and Christmas Carol roulette – I’m thinking of beginning things:
A belated Merry Christmas to you and all the Joy of the Season – especially the Joy of no longer…
Dec 26, 12:32
- on The Train (1964):
The usage of b&w sets this offering above many others. Having spent five plus year in France military and transportation…
Dec 20, 13:08
- on After the Hunt (2025):
First of all, this is a fantastic piece of film criticism. I admire how much you grapple with the movie.…
Dec 12, 10:02
- on Rushmore (1998):
Sorry this one didn’t jibe with you (the movie or the review), but thanks for stopping by!
Dec 10, 20:51
- on Good Boy (2025):
I’d argue, but I’m pretty sure the cat in Caught Stealing and the Pet Sematary remake must be on barbituates.…
Dec 9, 19:20
- on Good Boy (2025):
Well you’d have small children about the house, so you have all the fun and many of the frustrations involved…
Dec 8, 08:02
- on Good Boy (2025):
Sir, I am not what you call a Dog Person (I remained mortally afraid for them for many years and…
Dec 8, 07:59
- on Good Boy (2025):
Getting an obedient dog to act is one thing, but I can’t even imagine it for a cat. We’ll have…
Dec 7, 17:46
- on Good Boy (2025):
Dogs probably dream; there’s been a study on pigeon sleep that’s suggestive that they dream, which given mammals’ evolutionary distance…
Dec 7, 13:46
- on Eddington (2025):
In a vacuum, I intellectually appreciate your position. And yet everything about Eddington just puts me off it. Maybe if…
Dec 2, 15:44
- on Eddington (2025):
Not to make you think about this more since you’ve already hit publish, but I think I started basically where…
Nov 29, 16:58
- on Frankenstein (2025):
Ahem. “… just listen to Mr Patrick Doyle’s score for FRANKENSTEIN (Kenneth Branagh) and you’ll hear exactly the towering passions…
Nov 24, 15:53
- on Frankenstein (2025):
If this film did nothing else, it gave me a mental image of Ms Mia Goth delivering the immortal line…
Nov 24, 15:51
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
I’ve never seen Frasier 😅. Always assumed I’d like it. Good to read another endorsement.
Nov 23, 16:30
- on Frankenstein (2025):
Meanwhile The Phoenician Scheme, which I loved, is probably on track to get none. I’ve only seen 2 of the…
Nov 23, 16:29
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
I’m not totally sure how I missed this one, given that I like a lot of the other shows from…
Nov 22, 01:52
- on Frankenstein (2025):
Yep. Thinking on it, the music might be the most perplexingly bad part; maybe Desplat didn’t want to be inconsistent.…
Nov 21, 12:08
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Always glad to encounter a fellow Human Being, though as you note there are many of us. I have a…
Nov 18, 11:57
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Probably my favorite sitcom, which I feel ill at-ease with because it’s everybody’s favorite sitcom (that’s obviously not really true,…
Nov 18, 02:15
- on Him (2025):
“Maybe movies that make my heart glow even when I feel intellectually dishonest recommending them are actually good movies.” Unironically…
Nov 17, 01:01
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
I get that. It’s interesting to get the perspective of someone who was immersed in the context of U.S. sitcoms…
Nov 16, 13:29
- on Once (2007):
Great recommendation by you. I’ll def be checking out at least Sing Street. Yeah Katy’s feedback as we watched was…
Nov 16, 08:52
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Maybe! I’m glad to know I’d have someone following along. I’ve always wanted to write more about the show, and…
Nov 16, 08:36
- on Community – Pilot (S01E01):
Ooh, are you doing a series on Community, Dan? That’s a big undertaking, and I’m here for it! (Love this…
Nov 16, 04:06
- on Once (2007):
Would’ve been surprised if you didn’t like this at all, but I’m still pleased to see such a high rating.…
Nov 16, 00:29
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I no longer endorse this; I have completely flipped on the issue. 1 is, in fact, best, and you were…
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