Rams: The Best Icelandic Sheep Farming Movie of The Year
Granted, it’s only February, I might be proven wrong. But what a blessing if I am. Bring me your sheep, Iceland!
Category Archives: Pithy Reviews
Too Late: Five Deaths In Five Reels
A cool neo-noir shot on 35mm is the closing film at the 2016 SF Indiefest.
You Didn’t See Chi-Raq? That’s Why #OscarsSoWhite
An article you’ll stop reading well before I get to my review of Chi-Raq, a film which is worth watching.
Watch Room & Go Out of Your Mind
It will make you cry, but not with anger. These are the tears of yearning and growth.
Medium Cool Will Not Be Televised
Be here now
The Revenant Wants You Dead
Go see The Revenant with your dead son.
The Good Dinosaur: on Missing that Critical Impact
What if the impact that made The Good Dinosaur a great film narrowly missed Earth?
After Another Shadow Song of The Thin Man Goes Home
Between 1934 and 1947, William Powell and Myrna Loy made six Thin Man films and you should definitely watch three of them.
Theeb (Wolf): My, What Big Choices You Have
All the better to eat you with, my dear.
The Gunman Gets Gory
The Gunman is like The Constant Gardener for people who don’t like nice things.
Intercontinental Lousy Movie Marathon
Uncensored thoughts concerning the seven movies that stand united and determined to defeat me from my User-Editable Favourites Queue on the seatback screen on this 17-hour trip to Australia.
Some Positive Thoughts about Jupiter Ascending
If you have been dying to see Sean Bean act in a film in which he does not die and in which he plays a bee soldier, Jupiter Ascending might remove that last final chunk of your will to live.
Crimson Peak a Boo
Gothic Romance or Blood Lust? Yes.
Cop Car, or: What Not To Steal
Never, never, ever steal Kevin Bacon’s car. When will people learn?