Total: 134 Abacus: Small Enough to Jail: B After the Storm: B* Alien: Covenant: C All the Money in the World: D All These Sleepless Nights: C American Fable: C Annabelle: Creation: D Atomic Blonde: A-* Baby Driver: C- Battle of the Sexes: B- Beach Rats: B Beatriz at Dinner: B+* Beauty and the Beast:…
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Supporting Actress Smackdown 1944 – Originally completed 11/7/17
Hiya folks! Here we went just a few days ago, with a vintage I’m more or less cool with, given my support to four of the performances and three of the films. I’m happy that I got quoted as the reader comment for Jennifer Jones, and that my personal choice of Ethel Barrymore got runner-up from…
Smackdown 1985 – Originally completed 10/1/17
Hey! So, a thing that this website I’m very fond of called The Film Experience is that, once a month a few months out of the year, they get a small panel together and look back on a Supporting Actress lineup from any given year. Inherited from the Stinkylulu blog, it’s a pretty fun excuse to…
Horror for Horror’s Sake – Originally completed 9/16/17
Looking at the (albeit few) films I’ve chosen to review, the ones I’ve been willing to dive into blind, the expectedly shitty ones I’ve willing put up with, it’s fair to say I have a bias to exploring horror films more than other genres. At the very least I’m more interested in exploring scary movies…
The Fifties, 2017 Edition – Originally completed 9/1/17
Hello! So, as I semi-explained before, the goal of the fifties is to make a sort of halfway-through-the-year progress report of all the films you’ve seen and what you’d want to commemorate if you had ballot to cast, especially since plenty of films released before the fall aren’t really considered in that way for one…
December 2017 Viewing Log
Pink Flamingos (72, A-): Deliciously, gloriously depraved for a wonderfully perverse 90 minutes. Specific, genius, and fucking committed. – 12/1/17 The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (17, B+): Looks so fully at Martha, Sylvia, their movement, and all their legacies with love and bitterness and anger. – 12/3/17 Lady Bird (17, B+): Even richer the second…
November 2017 Viewing Log
The Void (17, B): N/A – 11/1/17 Meet Me in St. Louis (44, B+): Garland emerges the gem of an ensemble, the shining sun of a star vehicle, and the co-director of the film. – 11/6/17 Colorful, warm, romantic, and with great reservoirs of feeling. Little dated, but a lovely, lovely experience The Killing of a Sacred…
October 2017 Viewing Log
A Ghost Story (17, B): Some peaks and valleys, but as a temporal, sonic mood piece, I think it works splendidly, though others love it more. – 10/2/17 The Little Hours (17, C-): Balances modern & period flourishes well. But craziness never feels that crazy. Loses steam as it goes, if anything. – 10/2/17 Savage Grace (08, B+):…
September 2017 Viewing Log
Ingrid Goes West (17, B): You wanna make Mr. Ripley even more noxious? Swap in a palpably ill stalker. Plaza the exception of a smart cast. – Sept. 1 Death Note (17, F): Awful as an individual property, truly heinous & offensive as an adaptation. How could this protagonist be made so bland? – Sept. 2 (review)…
August 2017 Viewing Log
Tuesday, After Christmas (11, B+): Adroitly crafts points of view for all three of its protagonists, all without making itself predictable. – Aug. 1 The poignant, telepathic emoting in such stillness is the richest thing Romanian cinema has given us. After the Storm (U.S. 17, A): So delicate sculpting a web of family members while focusing on the foibles…
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