This episode broke my heart on multiple levels. As someone with a horrifically bad memory, this is my worst nightmare, erasing the image of someone I loved. It’s why I try to document things, it’s why I save mementos, it’s why I keep pictures (intact I might add). There is nothing sadder than losing the memory of someone important to you. It’s like they were never there. Then there’s the reveal at the end that made me cry. How many…
“No one ever sees you coming. Do they?”
It took me a bit to warm up to Michaël R. Roskam’s The Drop, in fact, it might’ve taken nearly the whole film, but looking back at it retrospectively, it moonlights as a crime thriller while underhandedly being a great character study. Tom Hardy is in a role you don’t see him in often, he still exudes the normal masculinity you’d find in his characters, but the testosterone is dialed way down.…
“You lost?”
“Nope.”
A preposterous (anti)Superhero origin story. Director/Writer duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are back with their sequel Crank: High Voltage, which somehow manages to be more outlandish than the first one. It’s not to say that the first installment had any plausibility to it but this one goes overboard, continuing the story with Chev (Jason Statham) falling out of a helicopter and living to tell the tale. In general, like I prefer serious horror, I prefer serious action…
Honey I Shrunk The Watchlist! 2025 Challenge
Challenge #18 - Watch a film that stars one of your favorite actresses: Michelle Pfeiffer
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Martin Scorsese does melodrama. The Age of Innocence is unlike anything I’ve seen from Scorsese. A high-society tale about forbidden love and based off the novel of the same name, this garnered a few Oscar nominations (with a win in costume) for the director. Its shining point is the acting, Winona Ryder who picked up a nomination…
“If these Mississippi crackers could see you now.”
Clearly I watched a different film than everyone else because I had a blast with David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. With a quirky, well-paced script that would make Wes Anderson proud and truly entertaining performances from a stacked cast, Amsterdam is a pleasant surprise.
O. Russell’s script is filled to the brim with oddities. Valerie (Margot Robbie) collects shrapnel from soldiers she treats to make art, characters sporadically sing songs (such as the…
I went into Andrew McCarthy’s Brats thinking it was gonna be about the excess of 1980s Hollywood, what it was like living in the limelight, the booze, drugs and sex that went along with it and the inner pack drama but instead its McCarthy’s 92-minute therapy session. While I was too young to really understand its impact, this film is about the introduction of the term ‘brat pack’ and what an incredibly traumatizing experience it was, at least for McCarthy. Other…
