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Sinners (2025)
Twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan), return to their home after robbing the major criminal gangs in Chicago, planning to start a juke joint while fending off the local KKK. They employ,...
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Alien: Romulus (2024)
Five generic human teens, wanting to escape their mining colony world, travel to an abandoned space station in an attempt to steal cryo-pods that will allow them to sleep during a long space voyage....
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The Best Films of Claude Rains
Claude Rains is arguably the greatest character actor of all time. He had a few leading roles in his career, but was more often the supporting player that held it all together. He began acting on stage...
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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
During WWII, Skikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), a cowardly, failed-kamikaze pilot, freezes in fear when given a chance to kill Godzilla, a monster that then kills most of the mechanics on Odo island....
View ArticleRanking Genesis Albums
Genesis started with 4 artsy, well-heeled students (I’ll ignore drummers for now), all of whom thought of themselves as writers, not performers. I don’t think that’s the best way to label them. Tony...
View ArticleMy 2024 Oscar Ballot
[This is not my picks for the best of the year—I’ll do the FOSCARs later—but just how I’d vote based on the options presented. And I will be skipping the animated shorts as I have not seen enough of...
View ArticleOppenheimer is Good
As I am now being inundated by awards speculation, I find it time to say something about one of the biggest films of the year. Oppenheimer is a good film. It’s a very good film. The acting is excellent...
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Scott (Paul Rudd), his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) are pulled into the Quantum Realm so that...
View ArticleMy 2023 Oscar Ballot
[I’m not covering the shorts or documentaries, and I never do sound as I don’t trust my viewing environments. I’ve seen everything I’m voting on except Avatar: The Way of Water (so I’m going to treat...
View ArticleMy Oscar thoughts on THE FABELMANS
Why must artists create autobiographies? They put themselves into all their work. Why must they be so literal about it? I knew everything I ever wanted to know about Steven Spielberg from Jurassic Park...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on All Quiet On The Western Front
Or is it? I generally ignore the source material and closeness of adaptation, but in this case it’s hard. I thought the first German adaptation of a German book in a setting of vital importance to...
View ArticleThoughts on Tár
Currently the film with the third best odds to win Best Picture, Tár is an interesting film, constructed to be unsatisfying for everyone. It’s precisely (at times delicately) made, with superb...
View ArticleThoughts on Triangle of Sadness
And today it is another of the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. 2022 was the year of the “Eat the Rich” combined with “modern culture is empty” satires, and strangely also of surrounding them with...
View ArticleThoughts on Elvis
Have some Oscar nominations to catch up on, and tonight’s was Elvis, or as it should be titled, “Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis,” as he Baz Luhrmann’s all over it. The thing is, that’s why I like it. The more...
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The Batman (2022)
In a world of stunted emotions, a strung-out, emo Batman (Robert Pattinson) is called in by Lt. James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) to help solve the gruesome murder of the mayor by a new costumed...
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Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021)
Callie (Carrie Coon) brings her teenage son Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and awkward, precocious daughter Phoebe (McKenna Grace) to live on her recently deceased father’s ramshackle farm. Phoebe quickly...
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My Top 10 Yes Songs
It’s time for another list that no one cares about. With films and gaming, I’ve got cred. Music… Well, this is just what I like. And what I like is Yes. Yes started as a psychedelic band, but moved...
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Just Published: The Birth of Monsters: A Guide to 1930s Horror Cinema!
A collection of my 109 reviews of 1930s horror films. Here you’ll find a complete guide to the horror films of the 1930s. There are 109 surviving horror movies from the decade and this book examines...
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