Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #4 (2023) 27 Jan 2023 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021): Hamaguchi directed two big Japanese movies released 2021, this and the Oscar winner for best international picture, Drive My Car. For whatever reason, WoFaF…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #3 (2023) 20 Jan 2023 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920): One of my goals this year is to fill some of my big cinematic knowledge gaps, starting with bona fide classics, particularly from the…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #2 (2023) 13 Jan 2023 Capra cu trei iezi (2022): This has to be the first Romanian (folk) horror movie I've ever seen and I'm glad to say that it stands as an equal to…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #1 (2023) 6 Jan 20236 Jan 2023 Western (2017): You just know that when the Germans come into town, you need to lock up your horses. Just kidding, of course, they'll get to them any way. Western…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #51-52 (2022): 30 Dec 2022 Carol (2015): Sometimes you leave a movie for "a later time" in the hope that it will live up to its promise and just find...the right moment. It seems like…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #50 (2022) 18 Dec 2022 Plus que jamais (2022): If you're up for heartbreak, then why not watch this beautiful and crushing tale of love and tragedy? Emily Atef might be showing European restraint, but…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #47-49 (2022) 9 Dec 2022 The Menu (2022): Well, I guess could call The Menu something like The Triangle of Food, given that it shares its overarching theme with Sadness. Thankfully, it keeps itself in…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #45-46 (2022) 18 Nov 2022 Take Out (2004): One of Sean Baker's early works (co-created with Shih-Ching Tsou), Take Out has many of the features we've grown to associate with the director - the amateur…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #43-44 (2022) 5 Nov 20225 Nov 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin (2022): Martin McDonagh confirms his pedigree as one of the most consistent active directors, producing another remarkable piece of filmmaking. Starring his "usual" leads, Colin Farrell…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #41-42 (2022) 21 Oct 2022 The Beta Test (2022): There's nothing quite like watching a Jim Cummings movie. What might otherwise have played out in ways that are expected, takes all kinds of twists and…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #40 (2022) 7 Oct 2022 Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022): I'll admit I'm torn about BBB. There were some things I didn't like about it as the movie progressed, but an ingenious ending made me reassess…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #38-39 (2022) 30 Sep 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): I wasn't that surprised to find out that the previous movie of directors' Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert was Swiss Army Man - it…