Rob Weychert

A game show for the Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society This is the long story of a frivolous, fleeting creative project that came out of nowhere, completely took over my life for a few week...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2024/04/once-in-a-lifetime/

First Presbyterian Church (Germantown), Philadelphia, PA— I only found out about the Philadelphia Organ Festival the day before it started, and I’m so glad I did. I wish I could have attended...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2024/03/philadelphia-organ-festival/

My year in review I’ll begin by briefly weighing in on five of the most prominent pieces of the 2023 zeitgeist, at least from where I was sitting. Some cynical vibes ahead, so feel free to sk...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2024/01/that-was-2023/

Bite-sized film reviews PETITE MAMAN ★★★★½ Don’t mind me, just starting off the new year with some quiet weeping over here THE BLACK PHONE ★ Act 1: Children savagely beating...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2023/12/letterboxd-loose-ends/

Notes from the bunker I’ve stared so intently at so many rapid antigen tests over the last few years, trying to discern if an impossibly faint second line was present, that I was entirely unp...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2023/12/day-1376/

It seems to me that the most interesting aspect of the QAnon phenomenon is the extreme mass hysteria, and that therefore the most urgent question, by far, is “How are this many people this stup...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2023/11/q-into-the-storm/

Despite the fatalism and the hardboiled dialogue, Brute Force is more of a melodrama than the noir I expected, which wouldn’t necessarily be a problem if it were better written. I’m onboard w...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2023/11/brute-force/

Irvington, NY— Late last year, my friend Jon (without an h) told me his high school buddy John (with an h) was putting together a band to play Misfits and Danzig tunes for Porchella, the annual...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2023/10/glenn-and-the-danzigs/

SAW ★★ I’ll give Saw a little more credit this time than I did on my first viewing years ago. The basic premise is the stuff of a decent popcorn thriller, Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell ar...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2023/10/all-10-saw-movies/

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake EVERY OCTOBER, I put together a big schedule of horror films to watch, focusing mostly on ones I haven’t seen before. The schedule, a mix of...

https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2023/10/robtober/