Movies reviewed this week: Gemini Man.
Category: Culture
Movies reviewed this week: Ascension.
Movies reviewed this week: Ready or Not.
That was sure a couple of movies jammed into one two hour window!
And I liked it. Danny Boyle’s a great director working with stylistic flair. The primary beats of the movie are completely fantastic. It’s a dream, perhaps literally: it’s constantly playing with space and time. The titles tell us we’re in Los Angeles before we get there. Conversations don’t miss a beat while characters instantly teleport over the space of miles.
Kate McKinnon is playing a Suffolk schoolteacher’s imaginary version of a music executive. It’s a fantasy! If you’re critiquing this movie because it doesn’t make sense, well —
Movies reviewed this week: Long Shot.
Movies reviewed this week: Alita: Battle Angel.
Movies reviewed this week: Killer’s Kiss and Nightfall.
For reference and for my friends who can’t make it to a Noir City showing this year. (San Francisco, Seattle, Hollywood, Austin, Boston, Chicago. Make it if you can.) I’m just listing movies with subscription/free streams here.
Subscription service info is mostly from Lettrboxed. One of the many cool features they have: you can click on a movie and find out where you can see it. You can also filter film lists by services, so if I wanna feel classy I pull up the list of TSPDT 21st Century Top 1000 Movies and find out what’s on Netflix.
- Trapped: Amazon, Internet Archive
- The File on Thelma Jordan: Internet Archive
- Killer’s Kiss: FlixU/Dailymotion
- The Burglar: Amazon
- Touch of Evil: Netflix
- Underworld, U.S.A.: Amazon
Movies reviewed this week: The Well.
This is not a review, it’s just some thoughts on the movie and the characters. Briefly, though: four and a half stars, superb acting, beautiful sets, funny but ultimately quite tragic.