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2022 / movies / sarah brinks

January 25, 2023

Sarah’s Top Ten Films of 2022

Sarah’s Top Ten Films of 2022 Sarah’s Top Ten Films of 2022 10. Deep Water Deep Water proves the idea that you can never know what is happening inside someone else’s marriage. Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda (Ana de Armas)...

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November 8, 2022

New to Home Video 11/8/22

Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/8/22: It’s a fact, overlooked or denied by most of your more superficial film critics, that it’s possible for a bad screenplay to be saved by good direction and filmmaking....

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August 6, 2022

Entering Robin Williams’ Mind and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

This week, we’re entering Robin Williams’ Mind. Here’s what else we’re doing: In addition to entering Robin Williams’ mind, we’re putting our shoes on with Marcel, reviewing I Love My Dad and They/Them and recapping San Diego Comic-Con 2022 All...

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August 3, 2022

I Love My Dad: Overfished, by Sarah Brinks

On its surface, I Love My Dad is a “comedy” about a father’s misguided attempt to stay in touch with his estranged son on social media. However, the moment you stop to think about the reality of the premise, it...

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March 30, 2022

Barbarians: Unfurnished Home Invasion, by Sarah Brinks

Home invasion movies are a popular genre, likely for the obvious reason that it is something most people fear. Our homes are meant to be our safe place, our sanctuary from fear. Barbarians takes the idea and shifts it slightly....

best of the week / movies

March 5, 2022

Not Looking Up and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: BP Movie Journal 2/24/22 Sarah’s Top Ten of 2021 Episode 780. Stephen Sondheim with Mike Shutt Movie Meltdown: Attack of the 2021 Oscar Nominees! The One...

2019 / movies / sarah brinks

January 25, 2020

Sarah’s Top Ten of 2019

I don’t know if I would say that 2019 was a great movie year, but I think it had some great highlights. It was a good year for horror movies like Us, Ready or Not, and Escape Room. It was...

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July 5, 2019

Phil: Routine Check-Up, by Sarah Brinks

Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” This is the central theme of Greg Kinnear’s directorial debut, Phil. The film doesn’t break any new ground but it is sweet and asks some interesting questions about how we live...

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March 14, 2019

Finding Steve McQueen: A Rumble Amongst Men, by Sarah Brinks

Finding Steve McQueen feels like a piece of music where everyone is playing the right notes but you just don’t like the tune. The film is well made, the acting is mostly good, the script is funny in places but...

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February 4, 2019

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Family Time, by Sarah Brinks

There’s a surprisingly consistent theme across the animated short films nominated this year: The many phases families experience throughout a lifetime. Four out of the five films explore this theme in different ways. Animal Behaviour “Animal Behaviour” is the one...

Tagged: sarah brinks

Sarah’s Top Ten Films of 2022

New to Home Video 11/8/22

Entering Robin Williams’ Mind and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

I Love My Dad: Overfished, by Sarah Brinks

Barbarians: Unfurnished Home Invasion, by Sarah Brinks

Not Looking Up and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Sarah’s Top Ten of 2019

Phil: Routine Check-Up, by Sarah Brinks

Finding Steve McQueen: A Rumble Amongst Men, by Sarah Brinks

The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Family Time, by Sarah Brinks

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