Category: Film Reviews
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5 Favorites #183: Best of the 2020s So Far (FINAL)
Welcome to 5 Favorites. This is my final post in this series and I’m wrapping it up looking at the first three years of the decade. While it’s likely these films will be displaced as the rest of this year and the subsequent six years arrive, this is a pretty solid list of films. Before…
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Review: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Rating Director John Harrison Screenplay Michael McDowell (Story: Arthur Conan Doyle; Story: Stephen King, George A. Romero) Length 1h 33m Starring Debbie Harry, Davvid Forrester, Matthew Lawrence, Christian Slater, Robert Sedgwick, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, David Johansen, William Hickey, Alice Drummond, Dolores Sutton, Mark Margolis, James Remar, Philip Lenkowsky,…
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5 Favorites #182: Best of the 2010s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. In my penultimate article of this series, we look at the films of the…
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Review: Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Alien: Resurrection Rating Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Screenplay Joss Whedon Length 1h 49m Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J.E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, Raymond Cruz, Leland Orser MPAA Rating R
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5 Favorites #181: Best of the 2000s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. As my taste in film matured throughout the 1990s, the 2000s was the decade…
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Review: Midnight in Paris (2011)
Midnight in Paris Rating Director Woody Allen Screenplay Woody Allen Length 1h 34m Starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hiddleston, Alison Pill, Corey Stoll, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Carla Bruni, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Léa Seydoux MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here
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5 Favorites #180: Best of the 1990s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. The 1990s were the first decade I really made an effort to watch all…
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Review: Werewolf by Night (2022)
Werewolf by Night (Short Film) Rating Director Michael Giacchino Screenplay Heather Quinn, Peter Cameron Length 52m Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Laura Donnelly, Harriet Sansom Harris, Kirk R. Thatcher, Eugenie Bondurant, Leonardo Nam, Daniel J. Watts, Al Hamacher, Carey Jones, David Silverman, Rick Wasserman, Richard Dixon MPAA Rating TV-14
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5 Favorites #179: Best of the 1980s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. The 1980s had a lot of big blockbusters, but I didn’t have nearly as…
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Review: The Bad Guys (2022)
The Bad Guys Rating Director Pierre Perifel Screenplay Etan Cohen, Yoni Brenner, Hilary Winston Length 1h 40m Starring Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Richard Ayoade, Zazie Beetz, Alex Borstein, Lilly Singh MPAA Rating PG Original Preview Click Here
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5 Favorites #178: Best of the 1970s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. The closer we get to the decade in which I started watching movies as…
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Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Rating Director Rian Johnson Screenplay Rian Johnson Length 2h 19m Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Noah Segan, Jackie Hoffman, Dallas Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Hugh Grant MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here
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The Morning After: May 15, 2023
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: The Bad Guys Unlike Disney’s…
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5 Favorites Postponed
This week has gotten a bit out of control, so I’m not able to write this post this week. I should have it done by next week.
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5 Favorites #177: Best of the 1960s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. The inexorable march of time proceeds for all of us, leading us into another…
