After watching all of those versions of A Christmas Carol last December, you’d think I wouldn’t be able to bear watching this old saw again this year, but you’d be wrong! I love this story, and it can be done so many ways, there is no reason for me not to be thrilled about a new version. And this year, we have two!
Read MoreAfter watching all of those versions of A Christmas Carol last December, you’d think I wouldn’t be able to bear watching this old saw one more time, but you’d be wrong! I love this story, and it can be done so many ways, there is no reason for me not to be thrilled about a new version. And this year, we have two! But they will have to wait for next week, because this week we have one of the classics that I meant to get to last year, but ran out of time: the Patrick Stewart version.
Read MoreI saw the trailer for Violent Night a couple of months ago, and it looked so funny and so tight that it really seemed like a fake trailer, and that it probably wouldn’t be improved by being two hours longer, but I was willing to give it a shot.
Read MoreHi all, Connor Lloyd Crews here. On our pod this week – SMC Pod #128: Movie Posters – we mention a heckuva lotta posters. I present them here with minimal comments for your perusal. Enjoy!
Read MoreThere is not a lot more pleasurable than an all-star mystery movie. They used to do these a lot in the 1970s and ‘80s, like Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, The Mirror Crack’d, and Evil Under the Sun, or comedically with The Cheap Detective, Clue, and Murder by Death.
Read MoreThis film was another situation where I saw the trailer and thought, Ralph Fiennes? Anya Taylor-Joy? High end restaurant? Tasting menu? Did they make this film for me?
Read MoreAt the time of its original release in 1981, there had never been a movie like Roar, which is an impressive feat considering the roughly eighty years of film history before it. Even more impressive is that there hasn’t been a movie like it since. Going further, there will never be another movie like it. (Discounting any descent into a Mad Max-like anarchic dystopia.)
Read MoreThis is my favourite way to see a film, knowing nothing at all about it, only that it was good. Or so I was lead to believe.
Read MoreI had originally intended this post to be about the current film, Tár, starring Cate Blanchett and written and directed by Todd Field but I couldn’t answer a question about it for myself. The question is not “Is this film any good?” The film, I’m happy to report, is definitely and without question any good.
Read MoreWhen I first saw the trailer for The Banshees of Inisherin, I knew this was the film for me.
Read MoreAnyone who has ever dedicated a substantial amount of their free time to watching movies will have a similar story of at least one film that seems to exist for them alone. If that aforementioned anyone is me, such a list includes 2013’s paranoia-drenched tension nightmare, Magic Magic.
Read MoreYes yes, I know, it’s November now, but only just barely, and I have three Hammer Dracula films left to do, so I’m squeaking them in under the wire of the end of spooky season!
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