Category: Movies
One Thing I Love About Paddington 2
The most remarkable thing about Paddington 2 might be its casting
One Thing I Love About Paddington
The first Paddington is a perfect example of the difference between a family comedy and a kids’ movie
The Future: Beef
I finally watched Phantom of the Paradise, and it prompted me to re-evaluate my snobbery and how I think of movies
One Thing I Kind of Like About Death of a Unicorn
Death of a Unicorn reminded me of the 1980s, in that it’s the kind of movie they hardly ever make anymore
Two Things I Love About Nosferatu
Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu strips away all the subtlety and subtext from vampire stories, and then adds a little back. Spoilers.
One Thing I Like About Black Bag
Black Bag is a simultaneously 21st-century and old-fashioned spy movie that’s all about trust
One Thing I Like About Opus
Opus undercuts its own messages about fame by casting a bunch of really talented people
One Thing I Like About Black Sunday
An entirely unacademic take on Mario Bava’s classic gothic horror
One Thing I Like About Mickey 17
The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.
