The Goods: Film Reviews
(Note: There’s an updated and expanded review for this film. Read it here.)
Zombies (stylized Z-O-M-B-I-E-S like a pep cheer) is an utterly bizarre, big-budget (for TV) romantic musical about humans and zombies co-mingling, set in a garish, pastel-colored parody of high school.
One of my foundational cinematic beliefs that all three movies in the “Andy Trilogy” are 5-star, Tour De Good masterpieces.
Spontaneous is a movie that flits in and out of greatness as quickly as its characters pop like balloons.
Edit: I wrote an expanded review for this following my 2022 rewatch.
Quick overview for the uninitiated (like I was last year): A bunch of interconnected shorts adding up to feature length telling the story of brothers Wirt and Greg wandering some sort of fantastical woods in late autumn.
Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man film is one of the most important comic book movies ever made, laying the groundwork for the tone and sweep that would define 21st century superhero films.
Compared to the other Halloween specials I’ve watched this Spooktober with my daughters, Curious George’s is the one that is most clearly “for kids” with little concern for the attention span of the grown ups.
Sin City. What to do with you?
As someone who recently fell in love with a semi-coherent documentary of old film footage soundtracked to voiceover ramblings, you’d think this one in the same genre might also do it for me.
It might be the nostalgia speaking, but I feel like Men in Black represents a golden and lost era of blockbusters
I watched Menace II Society just a couple days after watching Goodfellas, and, damn, do the two complement each other.