- on How to Train Your Dragon (2010):
I like the movie, but must admit to having seen it for the first time on television and not in…
Oct 8, 10:10
- on The Vast of Night (2019):
“We’re in the approximate mood of a ghost story told around a campfire, but rendered as a radio sci-fi story,…
Oct 8, 07:08
- on The Vast of Night (2019):
I liked the long tracking shot but I guess I’m just a sucker for long shot gimmicks. And I like…
Oct 7, 19:05
- on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999):
You’re the first stan I’ve encountered for Carver as Crane. Glad to see it! I’d watch this version again for…
Oct 7, 19:00
- on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999):
I think Brent Carver is the BEST īn this movie. I can’t watch no other
Oct 5, 13:52
- on The Vast of Night (2019):
Yeah, I liked this a fair amount back in 2020, though I was, like, real turned off by that centerpiece…
Oct 3, 18:25
- on The Dink (2026):
Strong agree. Harris is great. Been wonderful in so many movies. Intimidating screen presence.
Oct 3, 08:35
- on The End of Oak Street (2026):
For my money this is a decent film that could have done a better job of integrating the last act…
Sep 28, 07:16
- on The Dink (2026):
Ed Harris is a national treasure and should be cherished as long as he’s still making movies. He’s too accomplished…
Sep 26, 14:51
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
I think Scream 5 was my first Mikey Madison exposure as well (I still haven’t seen Once Upon a Time…
Sep 26, 10:00
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
I’ve found it interesting how little consensus there is about the order of the Scream movies, except practically every one…
Sep 26, 09:58
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
This cinematography fact is blowing my mind. Going to revise my paragraph. I recently saw a reddit thread that said…
Sep 26, 09:57
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
Hidey-ho, Murderinos! Not much of a Slasher movie fan, so the Meta bits leave me rather cold, but I really…
Sep 23, 15:10
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
I’m very much an outlier on this series, as I enjoy it first and foremost as a chance to hangout…
Sep 22, 22:47
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
Still haven’t seen Scream 7, but literally everyone I’ve heard talk about it says it’s the worst one. The rest…
Sep 22, 12:35
- on Follow Me, Boys! (1966):
I never knew that. I guess Zachary Levi does kinda resemble MacMurray.
Sep 22, 07:46
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
This was a tough ranking to make because I watched 1-4 in a binge then 5-7 when they came out,…
Sep 22, 07:44
- on Every Scream Movie Ranked:
This is about right, though my recollection is I’d put 3 much higher–in fact, all the Craven ones are at…
Sep 22, 01:36
- on Follow Me, Boys! (1966):
It may amuse you to know that Mr Fred MacMurray appears to have had a screen persona generally-wholesome enough that…
Sep 21, 06:41
- on The Odyssey (2026):
You could do worse than TROY: it’s not perfect, but there’s a good deal to recommend it as an Action…
Sep 18, 07:17
- on The Odyssey (2026):
My favorite Zendaya performance is probably Challengers where she gets to antagonize men so I think you might be onto…
Sep 17, 15:57
- on The Odyssey (2026):
Oh dang. Going to change that wording. I event thought through his movies and somehow skipped over The Prestige despite…
Sep 17, 15:55
- on The Odyssey (2026):
Thanks, Thrash, I think I’m with you on your take on Nolan’s not-quite-perfect intellectualism. I’ve been calling it “quasi-cerebral” because…
Sep 17, 15:53
- on The Odyssey (2026):
Thanks Eli. I think that’s a good insight that certain aspects of the Odyssey text remain always relevant; I think…
Sep 17, 15:48
- on The Odyssey (2026):
Thanks Mitch; you are very generous. You knew I had to address the question of whether Nolan is one of…
Sep 17, 15:46
- on The Odyssey (2026):
I admire this film a great deal and love it for letting Mr Nolan dive into pure Fairy Tale Horror…
Sep 16, 09:47
- on The Odyssey (2026):
“The Odyssey is the first time any of Nolan’s movies have been set prior to the 20th century” Well, *technically*……
Sep 15, 23:41
- on The Odyssey (2026):
Great review, Dan, it got me thinking about the way some of the early scenes feel hemmed in by the…
Sep 15, 14:01
- on The Odyssey (2026):
Loved the use of drawing parallels from today’s current events to the destruction Odysseus caused. Lots of scenes hopping Island…
Sep 14, 18:10
- on Driver’s Ed (2025):
I think this movie is eight out of eight. The cast was incredibly well done… The chemistry was amazing. It…
Sep 14, 16:31
- on The Odyssey (2026):
“ But Nolan’s “grand scheme” approach to the material also highlights the ways in which he is one of cinema’s…
Sep 14, 16:21
- on Death Becomes Her (1992):
I am, of course, taking your admiration of la Rossellini (Who is a rather amusing Mephistophelean figure into the bargain)…
Sep 14, 06:35
- on The Raid 2 (2014):
Great review of The Raid 2. I especially liked the discussion of how the different action sequences use their environments…
Sep 13, 21:37
- on The Whisper Man (2026):
I had the same reaction. The Severance guy is in his mid-50’s!?
Sep 10, 11:19
- on The Whisper Man (2026):
This feels like bait to get me to look up how old Adam Scott and Michelle Monaghan are and cry…
Sep 10, 07:24
- on The Whisper Man (2026):
“the shrimpy killer (Owen Teague) manages to take out all of Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, and Michelle Monaghan in…
Sep 10, 00:58
- on Death Becomes Her (1992):
Many great cinematographers have a catalog filled with “wait, they also shot THAT?” entries (everyone’s gotta pay the bills). Though…
Sep 8, 07:53
- on Death Becomes Her (1992):
Funny you mention those two points (“Taste” and Rossellini’s near-nudity) as an earlier draft of this had references to BOTH…
Sep 8, 07:39
- on Death Becomes Her (1992):
If nothing else we can thank this film for also inspiring the music video to ‘taste’ (My pick for the…
Sep 7, 06:52
- on Death Becomes Her (1992):
I had cause recently to see what beat Batman Returns for Best VFX for 1992, and when I saw it…
Sep 6, 23:20
- on Battleship Potemkin (1925):
Yeah that explanation makes sense (regarding silent scores). Some of the film history books I’ve read talk about how places…
Sep 2, 07:58
- on Battleship Potemkin (1925):
“One aspect of film history I am not clear on is how accurate the scores we see attached to modern…
Aug 31, 19:21
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
This should ABSOLUTELY be kept in mind and the narrative-building impulse is SUCH a big part of how stuff (and…
Aug 31, 19:04
- on A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018):
Making me want to watch it again. I’ll let you know how Camp Miasma is
Aug 31, 18:58
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Finally caught up with this one, and it turned out it’s both 1)better than The Bad Guys, looks pretty incredible…
Oct 8, 18:07