The middle film in Sergio Leone's trilogy is a bit of an improvement over A Fistful of Dollars, but I wouldn't overstate the difference. Lee Van Cleef is good as Clint Eastwood's co-star, and Gian ...

Brief (18 minutes) look at the story of the Cinema Guild in Berkeley in the 1950s. Fun for fans of Pauline Kael. Doesn't include anything new, but us Kael fans don't care.

This is the fourteenth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of ...

Tom Robinson was a big deal in the punk era with The Tom Robinson Band. His next group was called Sector 27. They released an album in late 1980, and it was a good one, although it didn't get much ...

A couple of days ago, my wife was on a Zoom call with some of her knitting friends. I was doing what I usually do these days, lying on the bed, listening to SiriusXM, and I only caught bits and pieces ...

This is the fifth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of the ...

Life Is Beautiful won 3 Oscars: Best Actor (Roberto Benigni over Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Nick Nolte, and Edward Norton), Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Original Dramatic Score. Its popularity ...

Sometimes it feels like every time Jessie Buckley makes a movie, people say it's a star-making performance. Beast was one of her first features, and she is terrific as always. But that was seven years ...

Entertaining enough look at high school (and life after) that is like a less mean-spirited Heathers. Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are excellent as the titular best friends who were bullied in high ...

This is the nineteenth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of ...

Semi-classic screwball comedy that doesn't really work for me. You've got one of my favorite directors in Howard Hawks, and a good cast including Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and Marilyn Monroe, but it ...

After a long break due, among other things, to my broken ankle, Phil Dellio and I attack a couple of recent films we didn't like.