Tag: 2025 movies
Video Wednesdays: Bugonia: The Thin Line between Genius and Insanity
Yorgos Lanthimos doesn’t seem to know how to tell a cookie-cutter, happy-ending Hallmark story to...
Video Fridays: Sundance Film Festival: Short Film Tour & Great Stories
Short films can be like good short stories in that you have to have a good story or engaging...
Video Mondays: Spinal Tap II: The End Continues(??)
I saw that my favorite local theater, The Beverly Theater, was having a single day special showing...
Video Fridays: Eleanor the Great & Asking Why Are We Still Here
I wanted to catch this one in theaters, and given how quickly movies come and go, especially...
Video Fridays: Eighth Grade & All Its Awkward Beauty
They nailed it. Having spent my last three years teaching Middle School and a total of six years...
Video Sundays: Honey, Don’t
I stopped looking at movie reviews on YouTube because the algorithm is biased towards the...
Video Fridays: Godzilla Marathon – Campy & Commentary
godzilla vs mechagodzilla & shin godzilla One of these is not like the other… I knew...
Video Sundays: Jane Austin Wrecked My Life… Writers, Am I Right?
I knew almost nothing about this film, except that it was about a reluctant writer who ends up at...
Video Thursdays: Fantastic Four, Believe in Your Ability to Meet The Challenge
Another winner… that should be seen in theaters (seat rumbling audio alone is something that...
Video Fridays: Take a Break and Watch My Neighbor Totoro
Such an innocent, magical, sweet story set in rural Japan, it’s such a sweet movie that, even...
Video Fridays: Ballerina, Superman & Summer Movie Fun
That was fun. So well done. So many great moments. I got a discount code from Fandango to see the...
Video Thursdays: Jurassic World Rebirth: They Did What With the Dinos?
This is a fun “summer” movie. The director, Gareth Edwards, has a history of doing as much of his...
Video Fridays: The Phoenician Scheme or “Let’s Negotiate!”
I’m sure that there might come a time when I’m disappointed with a Wes Anderson film, but this was...
Video Wednesdays: The Life of Chuck: A View from the Ending
It’s difficult deciding how much one should know about a film before watching it for the first...
Video Thursdays: To Live and Die in LA or 1980s SoCal Moby Dick
I saw the trailer for this film a couple weeks ago at my favorite local independent theater (The...
Video Wednesdays: But I’m a Cheerleader: Not Just Another Teen Sex Comedy
Human sexuality, much less gender identification, is a lot for a teenager to deal with. Growing up...
