It took me a bit longer than usual, but I made it to 100 films seen in early July. While there are still a few big ones I need to catch up on (Inside Out 2; A Quiet Place Day One), I feel fairly confident sharing what I've appreciated so far this year...and a couple I'm excited audiences will get to ...
Review: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
It may sound like an unlikely endorsement for a film, but stay with me here: The Zone of Interest will make you want to puke from discomfort and anxiety. Or at least, that's the reaction I had for most of Jonathan Glazer's 105-minute experiment in art that challenges every sense of decorum and ...
Review: ALL OF US STRANGERS
There's a magic to writer/director Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers, the kind that sneaks up slowly at first before becoming so powerful it's impossible to ignore its pull. A metaphysical romance and family drama centered on Adam (Andrew Scott), a screenwriter processing the enduring grief of ...
Year in Review: The Best Films of 2023
As another year draws to a close, I spent an evening enjoying one of my favorite year-end traditions: looking back at all the films I'd seen in the last twelve months (thanks, Letterboxd!) and deciding which of the more than 220 (roughly 227 this year, a massive increase from 2022's flimsy 167 ...
Review: THE COLOR PURPLE
Since Alice Walker's The Color Purple was first published in 1982, it has been adapted into a film (in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg), a stage musical (in 2005, which ran for three years and toured the country), another musical (a 2015 revival of the original, which ran about half as long but ...
Review: WONKA
The first thing to know about Wonka, the latest film to revisit the Roald Dahl-created candyman and his antics, is that this version is the brainchild of co-writer and director Paul King, who also gifted us the wholesome perfection that is Paddington. The second thing to know is that as a young ...
Holiday Gift Guide 2023
My family and I have reached that point where gift giving becomes more of a chore than a joy. All the kids are growing up (or grown), many of us have our own traditions at home before gathering for the holiday, and frankly, we are blessed enough in our day-to-day lives to have everything we need or ...
November: What I Watched
Last month, I looked at my Letterboxd and realized that I had three months to make up a lot of movie watching for the year. I've been making a concerted effort to catch up on everything I missed earlier in the year, and in November, I managed to watch two dozen films, many of which will likely be on ...
Review: MAESTRO
Bradley Cooper sure has come a long way since The Hangover, and we're all the luckier for it. The one-time comic leading man has bold ambitions, and if his first two directorial efforts—2018's A Star is Born and now Maestro, about the life, work and relationships of composer and conductor Leonard ...
Playlist: Holidays 2023
In what's become my most treasured holiday tradition (and I have quite a few!), I'm back again with my annual Holidays playlist, a selection of songs that I've been enjoying this season and I hope you will, too. Each year, I go into building this playlist without quite knowing how (or if) it ...
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