Week In, Week Out

Please excuse my busy schedule this week, but a non-domestic travel arrangement severely hampered my movie-watching agenda. The couple of movies I did see are miles apart from one another. Movie of the Week: Alien Resurrection Tuesday Harvey (1950): Long festering on my watchlist, I gor around to watching this Jimmy Stewart showpiece by pure randomness.… Read more

In a week so full of tennis, there was little time and energy left for the movies. A few still managed to be squeezed in and they weren’t even half bad. Movie of the Week 20th Century Women (2016) Some day last week: Airplane (1980): I somehow forgot to write about this – which is… Read more

Not the best week quality-wise, but we’re good on quantity. And you know what they say, the more you do it, the better human being you are. Read more

I actually can’t even merge anything from the last two weeks, as week #17 provided zero movie watching opportunities. Not sure when or if this has ever happened before, in the last few years. Nonetheless, I have prevailed from my apathy last week and enjoyed several, very different movies. Read more

A lot of the talk will be about the role of implicit racism, structural racism, and rightfully so, but what makes Get Out special is the attention to detail and the sharp irony it slaps its hypocrites with. Also, there’s something just remarkably endearing and relatable about Daniel Kaluuya’s wry smile. Read more

Not much to report. Friday Split (2016): Hyped as the first good Shyamalan movie in, I don’t know, a million years, Split seemed to me like just another disappointment. That’s if you can still call anything Shyamalan does disappointing, because it presumes a bar set high by previous efforts and/or expectations. In spite of a cool… Read more

Although I’ve done presentably on the movie front this week, what I really need to dedicate this intro to is 13 Reasons Why (2017). The Netflix series caught my attention (I knew it was for me as soon as I read high-school drama) and I ploughed through it during the weekend – a proper binge,… Read more

Not quite movie of the week but without competition, here’s a not quite original, but also a not quite horrible poster: Sunday From a House on Willow Street (2017): Not having seen a horror movie in a while, FaHoWS got its chance to impress. As a genre-mash, wherein some fools kidnap a girl for ransom who turns… Read more

I’m getting sloppier and sloppier. Typical. Movie of the Week: Toni Erdmann (2016)   Monday Hrútar (2015): The Icelandic movie about two brothers and some sheep proved darker than expected, yet serious to the bone as well. When Gummi loses against Kiddi (i.e. the two bro’s) in a local competition about who’s got the more impressive… Read more

Slow, slow week once more, in what is shaping up to be quite the Spring-slump. It happens all the time, after a strong year debut, one-movie-a-day kind, life sets in, questions bubble to the surface (why am I here, what am I doing, what the heck was Primer (2004) about?) and movie-watching grinds to a halt. What… Read more

I planned to watch my remaining Oscar contenders this week and make some informed choices. Not that it matters, we all know La La Land will sweep them – with merit. Instead, I went down memory lane again and compensated my dietary restrictions with food on (junk) film. Read more