Week In, Week Out

It was really hard to pick a standout movie this week. Ultimately, my gut went with Paterno, although The Post is a more coherent affair, with the two even being tangentially related. But I simply refuse to promote ‘modern’ spielbergianism until it decides to take a chance at something other than itself. When rough is… Read more

I was on holiday last week, so my movie diary got a bungled up. As usual, when with many others, re-watching movies is in order, both the recently released and the not-so-recently-released. There’s some big hitters though in each week, with no strong favourites though for the MotW title. Alas, there must be a winner… Read more

I was away last week, but still managed to pull my quote. #pride #thelittlethingsinlife #hashtag Oh, pitches… Pitch Perfect 3 (2017): Wow, talk about a movie being painfully unfunny and depressingly one-note. As a fan of the previous two movies, I felt insulted by how little they tried here. There’s nothing special about PP3, which is… Read more

When the girls come into town Annihilation (2018): Oh dear, this one’s a pickle. Alex Garland’s second movie after Ex Machina (2014) is not a mainstream friendly affair, being a sci-fi flick with influences from some of the best genre movies ever made. There’s some Alien in it, there’s some 2001, there’s some The Descent and… Read more

Modern day Yogi Bear Paddington 2 (2018): There used to be a time when anything above a 90% Rottentomatoes rating meant something really special and a 100% rating was unheard of. Even in the worst of cases, you had an Armond White to make it elusive – well, you still do, he just hasn’t review this.… Read more

I went down on Oscars-lane this week, checking off my lost all but one of the best picture nominees (The Post). Who would I want to win? Well, the days of me caring are long gone – if by long we understand two years. All the best picture nominees are pretty good movies, even if… Read more

Refined and improved. Or so I hope. The hundred meter dash to the Oscars. And Nicolas Cage.   The USsr we deserve The Death of Stalin (2017): I’ve awaited Iannucci’s latest movie with great interest. Being a huge fan of The Thick of It (2005-2012) and In the Loop (2009), and a moderate fan of Veep… Read more

Hey, I made a something to stop writing too much in the facebook posts. Already failed in that the title of the movie of the week didn’t quite fit. Also, the poster is kinda small. Hm. I’ll contemplate further changes. Ka-pow! Justice League (2017): I wasn’t much into Batman v Superman (2016), so my excitement/fawning… Read more

Nothing outstanding this time around, but several interesting picks nonetheless. Movie of the Week My Friend Dahmer (2017) When the boy comes into town Darkest Hour (2017): I was pretty sure Gary Oldman would rock it out as Winston Churchill and that he does indeed. To such a degree even, that there’s little room for… Read more

It’s been a while since I last had such a high quality week strung together. A lot of the stuff could have made a run at the movie of the week title, but in the end it was really hard to argue against… Movie of the Week The Florida Project (2017) When you watch a movie about… Read more

The first fluttering of weakness this week, as I’ve barely covered four lukewarm movies. It makes it that much harder to pick a standout. But here we go: Movie of the Week  Only the Brave (2017) When fire was extinguished by my unrelenting tears Only the Brave (2017): A true-story kind of affair, this movie… Read more