For the discussion of film
After every review said to catch this one on the big screen if you can, Netflix is expanding Roma to 600 theaters this weekend. Want to talk more about Netflix in the movie business? Meet me in the comments! Continue reading Movie Discussion 12/11/2018
In Love Actually/Hate Actually, Great Boos Up discusses each story in the movie and puts it on trial in an attempt to grapple with his enjoyment of the movie versus his own acknowledgement of its problems. The Defendants: David and … Continue reading Love Actually/Hate Actually #2: David/Natalie
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? Continue reading Brightburn Trailer Reaction
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Pixar Edition. The Good Dinosaur
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not open up your own or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best of Anime 2018
“It would be so great if this could be a film that people revisit every year…” ~ David Pevsner Last week I reviewed a series of LGBT Christmas films. Today I’ll provide a spoiler filled recap of one more: 2012’s … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Scrooge & Marley (2012)
There are plenty of movies I love that, to me, seem as close to objectively “good” as subjective taste can possibly run. I find it hard to understand, for example, how someone could not be enchanted and astounded by Who … Continue reading Love Actually/Hate Actually #1: Introduction
Much hay has been made over Roma and its status as a Netflix original that has gotten a wider than usual release from the company, but still one clinging stubbornly to a set of restrictions by the company. There are … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Roma (2018)
8:45pm – I’m cold and tired. It’s like this never ends. So many smiling faces, so hollow. I’m stuck in an endless loop. Maybe if I just close my eyes, it’ll all end… A Majestic Christmas is about… Christmas in … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: A Majestic Christmas Recap/Review
It’s a quiet weekend at the box office in terms of new films coming out as everything is getting loaded closer to the holiday but there is some significant news that hit. Aquaman hit overseas this weekend with a Chinese debut. … Continue reading Box Office: December 7-9
Welcome to Public Domain Theatre, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This Saturday, we’re presenting the screwball comedy … Continue reading Public Domain Theatre Presents: His Girl Friday (and “Superman”)
Inspired by one of my own comments In the open thread I decided to make a whole new thread dedicated to it. What would the Matrix look like today if you made it to be more indicative of video games … Continue reading Let’s Imagine: The Matrix
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting: It’s A Wonderful Life
You know what to do. Continue reading New Avengers Trailer Discussion Thread
I’m going to put this column on hiatus for now. As a belabored pun to tie together this column about endings and “To Boldly Sew,” here’s my question for this week: What dangling plot thread (get it, thread?) do you wish Star Trek had followed up on? Continue reading This Week in Trek: Loose Threads
As steaming services play a bigger and bigger role in the film and television industry, a lot of attention is going to their original content–but mainly streaming television shows. What about streaming movies? What hidden gems or washed up flops … Continue reading Awash in the Stream: A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
What are your hot takes? What’s overrated? What got snubbed? Talk about it here. Click through the “read more” to see the list of nominees.
So, that article that I posted yesterday about Jewel in the Palace? Please keep that in mind while reading this. Available…online. Approximately 115 minutes. It is 2004 and Geum-Ja the Kindhearted is being let out of prison on parole. She … Continue reading WTF ASIA 33: Lady Vengeance (2005)
I’m delighted to bring you Mingle All the Way. Why? Let me let the synopsis tell you. “Mingle All the Way” is a new networking app designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance. Molly, founder … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Mingle All the Way Recap/Review
With The Grinch being a box office juggernaut, it seems inevitable we’re gonna get a deluge of Dr. Seuss based movies in the years ahead. But feature length films based on the works of Dr. Seuss . . . they don’t … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Dr. Seuss on Film
