curated cinema: nailing a crooked politician, and making it good TV
2008’s Frost/Nixon is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
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curated cinema: what Jeff Bezos threw away in The Washington Post
2017's The Post is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
curated cinema: the criminal conspiracy is coming from inside the White House
1976’s All the President’s Men is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic, and on HBO Max in the US till June 1. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
I’m coming back — pinky promise! — next week
Putting this out into the universe for it and you all to see and hear... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
my picks for tomorrow night’s 98th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2025’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 12 out of the 24 categories, which is about as well as I usually do. (Ten of my “should win”s did win!) At least I’m consistent. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
curated cinema: two great movies by Rob Reiner
Watch 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap and 1987’s The Princess Bride and be reminded why Reiner was a gentle genius. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Wake Up Dead Man movie review: knives way the hell out (London Film Festival 2025)
Rian Johnson’s third outing with droll detective Benoit Blanc, perhaps the most memorable original new movie character in decades, is a grimly funny gothic romp through modern hot-button Americana. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025)
Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale... and it’s Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Good Boy movie review: horrors beyond canine comprehension
A haunted house movie from the dog’s perspective. No cheap gimmick but an absolute marvel, strikingly original and deeply affecting. An interspecies love story without a lick of phony sentimentality. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
The Cut movie review: head not in the game
A real aspect of boxing -- dangerously fast weight loss -- sports films have ignored becomes body horror we have not seen before. The genre’s motivational clichés get twisted, nastily and poignantly. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
One Battle After Another movie review: où est la résistance?
Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, it’s both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Sew Torn movie review: patchwork pastiche
The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
curated cinema: the madness and genius of Brian Wilson
2015’s Love Mercy is on Prime and Apple TV+ on both sides of the Atlantic. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
curated cinema: how societies fall
2010’s Agora is on Prime in the US; DVD only in the UK. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Black Bag movie review: committed to the cloak-and-dagger
Smart, sophisticated spy-versus-spy nonsense makes for a perfect little cinematic contraption. Tense and tricksy, but much more deliciously, these are espionage mind games with a sexy screwball vibe. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Fountain of Youth movie review: raiders of the lost art
Hollywood has lost the ability to buckle swash. Guy Ritchie, shamelessly stealing from Indiana Jones, gives us a charmless treasure hunt that feels honed by corporate focus groups and cinematic SEO. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Final Destination: Bloodlines review: the curse of fatal death
The dorm-room philosophy of the 25-year-old series is still pondering how wild it is that we all die, how fragile our meatbag bodies are. Now with gory dismemberments and squishy impalements in IMAX! (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Sinners movie review: bootleg vampires
Wildly primal, big and bold, fueled by pain and rage, by community and family, throbbing with love and sex and joy, infused with magic. A sumptuously textured, unmissable howl of a passion project. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Superboys of Malegaon movie review: making movies with his friends
Gentle, charming dramedy about pals in middle-of-nowhere India making amateur movies. The giddy glee in this winsome portrait of geeky passion and enduring friendship is all-around infectious. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
my picks for tonight’s 97th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2024’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 12 out of the 23 categories, which is exactly as well as I did last year. (Five of my “should win”s did win!) At least I’m consistent. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
When I’m Ready movie review: it’s the end of the world, and you’d barely know it
Pretty young people are sad about the end of everything, but there’s no urgency and little emotional authenticity to any of it. We’ve seen this before, pulled off with far more affecting feeling. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
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OFCS 2024 awards winners announced
Anora and The Substance are the big winners; Ava DuVernay, Barbara Crampton, and Nicolas Cage are honored with Special Achievement Awards... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
The Apprentice movie review: Donald Trump’s origin story as a loser and a user
A portrait of a weak man, humorless and friendless, desperate to be liked, desperate to be seen as someone who matters . Sebastian Stan’s brilliantly disgusting Trump is horrifically riveting. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Paddington in Peru movie review: bad things happen when you leave the city
Colorful but flattened and flimsy, which really grates next to how abundantly, uniquely original the first two movies are. Suffers greatly from the lack of their deft whimsy. It’s, well, bearly there. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
The Brutalist movie review: red, white, and brutal
Stark and unsentimental, as stubborn and as challenging as its protagonist, and as monumental as his works. Adrien Brody’s performance is extraordinary, full of flinty anger and palpable melancholy. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
AWFJ 2024 EDA Awards winners announced
The Brutalist , Conclave , and The Substance are the big winners... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
Apple TV+ is free worldwide Jan 3–5
Get ready to spend the weekend bingeing some great films and series. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #24
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #23
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #22
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #21
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #20
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #19
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #18
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #17
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #16
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #15
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #14
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #13
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
join me for an online chat about ‘Chariots of Fire’ (now with video!)
Watch me chat about this Oscar-winning Best Picture. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #12
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #11
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #10
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #9
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #8
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #7
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #6
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #5
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #4
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)