Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #45 (2020) 13 Nov 202013 Nov 2020 During the last few days, I eked beyond the mark of 3,500 movies watched. That's over 6,000 hours, but still some way to go until I round out a full…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #43 #44 (2020) 6 Nov 2020 La Grande Bellezza (2013): Hard to believe it's been seven years since La Grande Bellezza was released. It's a movie I've seen many times already, each one as pleasurable as…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #41 #42 (2020) 24 Oct 2020 The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020): Radha Blank wrote, directed and starred in one of 2020s best movies, a thoughtful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable story about finding your voice and fighting for…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #40 (2020) 10 Oct 202026 Oct 2020 Spontaneous (2020): This was a week dominated by teen movies and rom-coms, all enjoyable, none quite exceptional. Well, that is, until Spontaneous, which is, at least, something completely different. Starring…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #38 #39 (2020) 2 Oct 2020 Challenger: The Final Flight (2020): I've always had an interest for the game of...space and tell and vividly recall the Columbia disaster in 2003. Challenger was the perfect storm 17…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #36 #37 (2020) 19 Sep 202019 Sep 2020 In Fabric (2018): Coming across a movie as gorgeous as Peter Strickland's In Fabric is a rare thing. It being a complex B-movie about a killer dress and yet engaging…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #34 #35 (2020) 8 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 Frankenstein (1931): Movies of the 30s are an acquired taste, with their post-silent-era narrative and acting eccentricities. Yet, Frankenstein feels almost modern in this context, perhaps because a non-speaking monster…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #32 #33 (2020) 19 Aug 2020 Sweetheart (2019): I kinda feel that the best movies at expressing deep rooted discrimination, abuse and inequality have been horror movies. There's something about clever allegories, subtle nuances and metaphors…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #31 (2020) 7 Aug 2020 My Name is Tanino (2002): Way before Paolo Virzi did La pazza gioia (2016) or Il capitale umano (2013), he directed My Name is Tanino, a movie that stands out…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #29 #30 (2020) 31 Jul 2020 The Russian Five (2018): With all my experience of hockey coming about during that one edition of NHL I played relentlessly in the early 2000s, I still look upon the…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #28 (2020) 17 Jul 202022 Jul 2020 Relic (2020): Whether you are into horror movies or not, Relic is bound to creep you out and send you into a spiral of dark thoughts. Natalia Erika James' movie,…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #27 (2020) 11 Jul 202011 Jul 2020 Sorry We Missed You (2019): Even in his 80s, director Ken Loach is razor sharp in his critique of social disequilibrium and shortcomings. The movie follows up on the exceptional…
