Reviews and reflections on movies.
100 Movies in 2020: # 15, Lost in Translation Lost in Translation is a story about an unlikely relationship between a faded movie star who comes to Japan to make liquor ads and a young woman accompanying her photographer husband on a business trip. In this film, writer and director Sofia Coppola gives a masterclass […]
100 movies in 2020: # 14, Inception Everybody makes a big fuss about Christopher Nolan. I’m the last person alive who hasn’t seen the Dark Knight films (see my earlier posts about superhero flicks in general) so I didn’t know anything about Nolan other than a serious cult attends him. I’m generally skeptical whenever a […]
100 Movies in 2020: #13, Booksmart A good female buddy movie is hard to come by. There’s this list, but half of these aren’t true buddy movies (the other half I haven’t heard of, much less seen). Bombshell? Steel Magnolias? No. Two women who happen to be friends in a film does not a buddy […]
