The Goods: Film Reviews
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.
I don’t have too much experience with the modern-retro Mickey Mouse shorts from the late 2010s, so it was enlightening to see it in full bloom for a 20 minute special.
For how cheap and rushed it should feel, given that it’s a 50-minute special advertising a theme park attraction, Muppets Haunted Mansion is surprisingly well-realized.
I think the reason that Goodfellas is (probably) my favorite gangster movie is because it does the best job of depicting the extreme bundle of paradoxes that the gangster arc is all about: