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alexander miller / monday movie / movies

January 14, 2019

Monday Movie: Celine and Julie Go Boating, by Alexander Miller

There’s nothing better than watching a movie that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Celine and Julie Go Boating is a flooring experience. Rivette swivels and steers through the thematic, narrative, stylistic and even philosophical domains with the relative ease,...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

January 2, 2019

Criterion Prediction #172: Daddy Longlegs, by Alexander Miller

Title: Daddy Long Legs aka Go Get Some Rosemary Year: 2009 Director(s): Josh and Benny Safdie Cast: Ronald Bronstein, Fray Ranaldo, Sage Ranaldo, Eleonore Hendricks Synopsis: Lenny, a freewheeling 34-year-old projectionist, spends two weeks with his two young sons, Sage...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

December 28, 2018

Criterion Prediction #171: Meet Me in St. Louis, by Alexander Miller

Title: Meet Me in St. Louis Year: 1944 Director: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Margaret O’Brien, Marjorie Main, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames Synopsis: In the year leading up to the 1904 World’s Fair, the four daughters of the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 23, 2018

Vice: Touch Me, I’m Dick, by David Bax

Some of the best elements of Adam McKay’s caustic, righteous, hilarious The Big Short are the digressions and cutaways used to explain complex, esoteric concepts, like Anthony Bourdain using a restaurant’s leftover fish to demonstrate collateralized debt obligation. In his new film,...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

December 23, 2018

I Do Movies Badly: Trapped in Paradise

Trapped in Paradise may not be a great film – it may not even be a particularly good film – but it’s quite a solid Christmas film if you, unlike Roger Ebert, can overlook all the police car crashes. Merry Christmas and Happy New...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 20, 2018

Welcome to Marwen: Keep Giving All the Love You Can, by David Bax

Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen begins with a swirl of Alan Silvestri music that harkens back to the crowd-pleasing movie magic of his 1980s collaborations with the director. It’s a bit of self-consciousness that may nevertheless be fitting; Zemeckis likely sees something...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

December 19, 2018

Criterion Prediction #170: Welcome to the Dollhouse, by Alexander Miller

Title: Welcome to the Dollhouse Year: 1995 Director: Todd Solondz Cast: Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis, Christina Brucato, Christina Vidal, Siri Howard, Brendan Sexton III Synopsis: When seventh-grader Dawn Wiener isn’t getting bullied at school, she’s at home with an uptight...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 18, 2018

Mary Poppins Returns: If You Say It Loud Enough, by David Bax

If you come to Disney movies looking for dead parents, Mary Poppins Returns has what you’re looking for and then some. In this sequel set some three decades after the original film, not only are both the Banks parents long gone,...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

December 17, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Little Annie Rooney, by Craig Schroeder

Little Annie Rooney stars Mary Pickford as the titular scamp and leader of a gang of young ruffians and street urchins who have found themselves in an embittered battle against a similarly tempered crew of rogues and rascals. While the...