Although I did make a post last week giving an excellent resource to all sorts of banned books to start reading for this week, aka Banned Books Week, I would be remiss if I didn’t make another post during the week itself. Last week’s post from Harper’s Bazaar drew from an exhaustive report done by PEN America, and you can learn all sorts of details about the who, what, why, and when of the various…
(Note: this capsule review is part of my farewell to the Netflix DVD service. #GetThroughMyQueue) I’ve heard only good things about this film since it first came out and since, but I avoided it back in the day because it sounded like it involved no mecha, no sci-fi/fantasy, and was also a downer. All of this was proven correct. American bombers are the closest we get to mecha… and the only fantastical elements are occasional…
(Note: this capsule review is part of my farewell to the Netflix DVD service. #GetThroughMyQueue) Another late era Hitchcock, this time with Paul Newman… and Mary freakin’ Poppins! Alas, Julie Andrews doesn’t have much to do for most of the film which is less than supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. However, if we’re talking about something really quite atrocious, it’s the paranoid police state that is East Germany, which is well represented in the film. Not only that, many…
(Note: this capsule review is part of my farewell to the Netflix DVD service. #GetThroughMyQueue) I confess, I haven’t seen several of the later Hitchcocks and they’re all in my Netflix queue. This is another one of movies that had a “Very Long Wait” until it was suddenly headed my way. I wonder if there was a reason I didn’t see this one as a kid. Oh. Oh, yes. Now I see. This is way…
(Note: this capsule review is part of my farewell to the Netflix DVD service. #GetThroughMyQueue) This is one of those classics I can’t remember if I’ve seen, which usually means it’s been over 30 years if I did see it. And speaking of classics, if you’re not in a “Turner Classic Movies” mood, the action may seem to slow-paced and tame… and you might focus on the fact that this film was so clearly based…
Banned Books Week 2023 is almost upon us, so it’s time for me to finalize what book or books I’ll be reading next week — and you might be in the same boat! Often I go looking for books that have been historically challenged, but the current vitriol against the free flow of ideas has led to a lot of books being challenged or outright banned in a lot of different localities across the country.…
(Note: this capsule review is part of my farewell to the Netflix DVD service. #GetThroughMyQueue) So, even though it wasn’t available for the longest time, this proved to actually be streaming at just the right time on Paramount+ (which of I naturally have, because Star Trek). There’s something to be said for using some of the exact same crew you used for the documentary version of the subject (Little Dieter Needs to Fly) and a…
So I’ll have a longer post in October as previously mentioned, but for those seven or nine people actually getting some updates about the strikes from this blog, a tentative deal has been struck between the AMPTP and the WGA as reported various places. As you’ll see in the article linked above, there are several procedural steps that are not perfunctory that involve the WGA West and East boards validating the deal and then, importantly,…
(Note: this capsule review is part of my farewell to the Netflix DVD service. #GetThroughMyQueue) Werner Herzog is such a prolific filmmaker, I suppose I could have filled up much of my queue with his films, because, although I’ve seen dozens, there’s way more that I haven’t seen. This particular film has bounced in and out of Netflix’s “very long wait,” so I was happy to have it finally pop up (to be followed by…
(Note: this capsule review is part of my farewell to the Netflix DVD service. #GetThroughMyQueue) Yet another DVD I’ve been meaning to check out for ages. This black comedy is an absolute favorite of several indie filmmaker friends I know. Now, I get why. Being into smaller indie films will definitely aid your enjoyment of the film, as well as wanting humor that’s dry as a bone and peppered with profanity as punctuation in that…