I rewatched Wes Anderson's 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox again and I have to say that it might be my very favorite of his films. Now, I get it if you don't like Anderson. It's an aesthetic alright and if it isn't yours, you probably...
LGM film club
I'm not saying this is the best work Richard Pryor ever did, but his bit on working in a mob-owned club in Youngstown does include some outstanding impressions of those.
I've been occasionally revisiting Woody Allen's best films after quite awhile off. I've long been on the record about not making my decisions about what art to enjoy based on.
Is Wong Kar-Wai's 2000 film In the Mood for Love the perfect movie? I mean, it has as good a claim as any. It's not only his best film, it's one of the greatest films ever made. It is completely pitch perfect. There's the astounding...
I hadn't seen Mario Monicelli's 1963 film The Organizer in years. I remembered loving it but hadn't seen since I initially watched it. And yeah, it's great. Starring Marcello Mastroianni.
For blog-based reasons that will become clear soon enough, I had reason to go back and watch some of Terrence Malick's films. Badlands and The Thin Red Line are big.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to revisit one of my all-time favorite films, Elio Petri's 1970 classic Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion in the age of Trump. But I am glad I did. If you haven't seen this, you really should, as it's...
I've been having my annual rewatch of some of my favorite films and enjoying it as much always. One film I watched that I hadn't seen in many years was.
Tomorrow is my birthday (51, wtf?) and every year around now, I spend like a month or so watching a bunch of my favorite movies. I really need it right.
One way to deal with the return of Trump is more film. I don't know when the last time was that I watched Spike Lee's 2000 film The Original Kings of Comedy, documenting the comedy tour hosted by Steve Harvey and including D.L. Hughley, Cedric...
I went back to one of my all-time favorites, Nicholas Ray's 1951 film On Dangerous Ground. It's not a perfect film by any means. But in the first half-hour, Robert.
We started 2025 in this series with Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a brilliant, if messy, satire of modern Romania through the eyes of a teacher whose.