occasional fish

Robot Carnival has some visually impressive moments, and yet, a week later, I’d be hard-pressed to recall any of the individual animated segments. The File on Thelma Jordon is just a nice littl...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13576

I watched just four movies last week: There might be a way to tell the story that Passengers tries to tell, but definitely not in the way that the movie tries to tell it. Jean Simmons and Dirk Bo...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13570

I watched another half dozen movies last week: I have no particular fondness for—or even, strictly speaking, memory of—the original Road House, so I didn’t know at all what to expect from t...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13567

I watched another 6 movies last week: I don’t know how much mileage there actually is in “Lord of the Flies in space” as a concept, but Voyagers doesn’t take it nearly far enough, and the...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13551

The Shout is strange and moody and pessimistic, and it gets under your skin even if you’re not exactly sure you can say what it’s supposed to be about. Roger Ebert was probably more forgiving...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13533

I watched an assortment of five movies last week: There’s a lot going on in American Fiction, sometimes almost too much, and certainly a lot more than just the satire of publishing and race tha...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13523

I don’t remember the first Aquaman movie all that well—as the near-endless flashbacks and voiceover recapping in the second one makes abundantly clear—but I remember it being mostly fun mos...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13513

I watched seven movies last week: Cliffhanger is dumb and very forgetable, but it’s also a fairly entertaining thrill ride. In Which We Serve is straight-up British stiff-upper-lip World War II...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13502

Brief Encounter is such a lovely gem of a movie—one that, as Greta Gerwig puts it in an interview on the Criterion Channel, “lets you be in love with falling in love.” It doesn’t feel at ...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13481

I watched just four movies last week: I have vague memories of reading at least parts of Helen Keller’s autobiography when I was much younger, so it was interesting to see how much more The Mir...

https://www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=13473