- 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
- on Battleship Potemkin (1925):
If I’m reading your comment correctly, you saw Potemkin multiple times before leaving middle school, which is impressive youthful film…
Aug 31, 11:57
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
Part of the temptation of overpraising Cars (at least for me) is the narrative of every one of Pixar’s first…
Aug 31, 11:51
- on A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018):
“Lord knows I don’t care” about Slenderman spelling made me laugh out loud. ‘Pure curation’ has that phonetic good good.…
Aug 31, 06:04
- on Battleship Potemkin (1925):
Good write-up! I don’t know if I ever really thought of it as work or if I was insistent that…
Aug 30, 16:34
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
Rarely have I felt more out of touch with my peers when they’ve insisted that Cars is one of the…
Aug 30, 15:12
- on Podcast Episode: The Kid Detective (2020) – They can live amongst us:
I’ll give the movie a go. Johnson gave a delightful interview on The Big Picture podcast that made me excited…
Aug 30, 14:25
- on We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021):
It’s a good question. I would have to rewatch again to articulate with full confidence, but from what I remember:…
Aug 30, 14:24
- on Podcast Episode: The Kid Detective (2020) – They can live amongst us:
I’m planning on checking out the series. Went in fairly blind and it was difficult to pin down what kind…
Aug 27, 19:12
- on We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021):
‘vitamin 0 and 1’ i like. why did you feel the final story was fake? it’s a question i’ve been…
Aug 27, 10:24
- on Podcast Episode: The Kid Detective (2020) – They can live amongst us:
I got a little gun shy on Nirvana when learning it had a tie in to a show and web…
Aug 25, 12:17
- on Weekend at Bernie’s (1989):
Glad to encounter a fellow appreciator. As for a review of II? (Rubs hands together like a scheming Wile E.…
Aug 25, 12:16
- on The Kid Detective (2020):
Glad you checked it out and dug it! Always fun to find a diamond in the rough. He was good…
Aug 25, 09:26
- on Weekend at Bernie’s (1989):
Yep, a genuinely good movie that has been shabbily treated, somewhat mystifyingly so, used as a sort of stand-in for…
Aug 22, 11:22
- on Podcast Episode: The Kid Detective (2020) – They can live amongst us:
You brought up Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie in the podcast and it was on my…
Aug 21, 08:23
- on Disclosure Day (2026):
I’ll have you know they are bringing Air Bud back in January!
Aug 20, 20:17
- on The Kid Detective (2020):
I loved it! I was hooked on the comedy angle I felt it was initially presented as and I think…
Aug 20, 19:55
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
Cars 2 is just completely unserious, an utter nonsense spy story starring Larry the Cable Guy. I watched it again…
Aug 18, 08:49
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
Well I heartily endorse the love of PUSS IN BOOTS 1 & 2, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves…
Aug 17, 06:06
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
One of only two Pixar movies I’ve never seen. You just reminded me I finally started Cars 1 about three…
Aug 15, 14:12
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
D’oh! Went back and finished that sentence. Dog Man is probably my favorite post-Last Wish DWA film, but it hasn’t…
Aug 15, 12:03
- on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022):
“furnishing an inventive array of ” Something! Fairy tale-based magic spells, as I recall. Yeah, without checking, I think I…
Aug 15, 11:50
- on Puss in Boots (2011):
Glad you’re a fan; I had no idea this was so squarely “ED-core”! I like the sequel even more.
Aug 15, 09:07
- on Puss in Boots (2011):
I guess the Spanish of Zorro trumps the French of Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté!
Aug 15, 09:06
- on Puss in Boots (2011):
On a no-jokes note, I’m glad you enjoyed the film once you had a chance to see it – this…
Aug 13, 12:24
- on Puss in Boots (2011):
– RAPIER – Señor, when you cast THE Antonio Banderas as a Zorro parody he is no longer a parody,…
Aug 13, 12:20
- on Puss in Boots (2011):
Yeah, when I caught up with this one a few years back I was very surprised how good it was.…
Aug 12, 17:25
- on The Drama (2026):
Haha I’m still not always good at predicting what will click and what won’t for you but I had a…
Aug 12, 02:10
- on It Follows (2014):
I was listening with my kids to a kids comedy podcast that had a sketch describing the game of tag…
Aug 11, 10:44
- on Shrek Forever After (2010):
I love both Puss in Boots movies as well, which you will see in my coming reviews!
Aug 11, 10:42
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Loved the use of drawing parallels from today’s current events to the destruction Odysseus caused. Lots of scenes hopping Island…
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