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.…

“Don’t you believe there’s someone for everyone?”
“Close. I believe there’s nobody for anyone.”

Good in spots. Checked out Destination Wedding, written and directed by Victor Levin, as part of my very slow deep dive into Keanu Reeves’ filmography. While I’d consider this a win in that respect, both the writing and a complete lack of chemistry make this a hard sell. I’ve certainly seen worse in the rom com genre but this isn’t one I’ll be recommending.

First the…

“You ought to be in bed. What the hell you doin’ this for anyway?”
“Wyatt Earp is my friend.”
“Hell, I got lots of friends.”
“I don’t.”

I don’t know what I did to have the movie gods bless me but I’ve been watching some bangers. I’ve seen George P. Cosmatos’ Tombstone before but it’s been decades. With Val Kilmer’s ing, I told a friend Kilmer’s role as Jim Morrison was my favorite and Doc Holliday was his, and I…

“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…