Saying that 10 Cloverfield Lane is a different kind of movie from Cloverfield is an understatement.
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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January 2023 Recap
I’m a few days late, but I hope you all have had a fun start to 2023! I’ve been keeping busy!
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Causeway (2022)
Here’s the logline of Causeway according to IMDb
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
That All Quiet on the Western Front remains a functional piece of synchronized sound cinema is impressive.
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Cloverfield (2008)
Cloverfield is the definitive 9/11 genre film.
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38 at the Garden (2022)
I absolutely love the Linsanity story (genuinely one of the greatest American sports moments of the 21st century), and that goodwill carries this HBO doc to a certain extent, but I was continually annoyed how little of it is actually basketball-focused and how much it rushes the story. I’d much rather see more of the footage and hear the actual crowd cheers than listen to people who watched it on TV describe it.
Also, I understand there are deep cultural connections between the magic of Linsanity and the wave in Asian American hate crimes since 2020, but it’s still kind of a curveball downer of a topic for a doc about something inspiring that happened 10 years ago.
Why is the comedian Hasan Minhaj narrating 60% of this? Why does he talk more than Jeremy Lin?
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The Five Worst Movies of 2022
I’ve watched more than 75 movies, and counting, released in 2022.
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Call Jane (2022)
Call Jane is a breezy indie dramedy about back-alley abortions. Read that sentence again.
While it crosses over into something transgressive a few times — for example, a debate about who gets their limited free abortion slots (a rape victim, a 12 year old, etc.) that plays like dinnertime banter — but in general what’s most surprising about Call Jane is how down-the-middle and low-stakes the movie is given its subject matter.
The film presents itself as uplifting slice of feminism, which I suppose is part of the point: its characters (and its filmmakers) want to normalize reproductive rights the same we do voting rights and freedom of the press and the usual topics of films like this. But it still feels so tonally jarring to me.
It’s well-made enough as a production. Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver are reliably charismatic, and Cory Michael Smith gives the film a blast of dark wryness as the doctor performing the abortions. But it just feels a little bit baffling and off-key its whole runtime.
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Whiplash (2014)
The idiom “tight as a drum” refers to the tension of a piece of leather on the frame of a drumhead.
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M3GAN (2022)
Little girls are creepy, uncanny dolls are creepy, both have been frequently and successfully been transformed into horror icons in the past… por que no los dos?