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 […]
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Reviews and reflections about movies, screenplays, and books.
Booksmart Is the Best Female Buddy Movie in Years
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 […]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Is Not Great.
100 Movies in 2020: #12, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Westerns aren’t my thing. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the dust. I am allergic to dust. I’m also typically allergic to any general consensus on something being all that. That being the case, let me offer my counter-consensus opinion: Butch Cassidy and the […]