Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Return to the Movies

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 After roughly two years my wife and I returned to the movies today-- Belfast. We enjoyed it: some laughs, a moist eye or two, and an educat...
Monday, September 13, 2021

"Worth" Movie and FSA Programs

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 Saw some publicity for the movie "Worth", a dramatization of Kenneth Feinberg 's management of the distribution of the funds ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

"The Situation" (Good Money-Losing Movie)

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 According to IMDB this movie had a $1 million budget and made $48,000 at the box office. That must be close to a record for losing money o...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

Every Cow Has "Her People"/

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Vox has an interview with the director of "First Cow", who comments of the cow: "She had her people." She also agrees ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Thoughts on Movies and CGI

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Wife and I watched the 1993 movie "Gettysburg".  It's not a movie which would be made today. It's not how we see the Civil...
Friday, August 23, 2019

On the Basis of Sex

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Today's news about Justice Ginsburg's pancreatic cancer comes a few days after we watched the biopic: " On the Basis of Sex ...
Monday, April 22, 2019

The Proliferation of Popular Culture References

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My wife and I subscribe to Netflix and Amazon Prime and watch regularly.  Maybe I'm just feeling out of it these days, but it seems to m...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Movie Review: Green Book

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The movie has attracted some flak in the media, but my wife and I enjoyed it. In a way it reminded me of movies like "Pretty Baby W...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

For the Good Old Days of DVD Extras

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The NYTimes had a piece on the fading away of extra features which used to be included on DVDs. My wife and I are long-term subscribers to N...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Phantom Thread

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Thursday and time for another short movie review.  This week it was Phantom Thread , with my spouse's favorite  actor (excluding beefcak...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Molly Bloom

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I seem to be falling into a pattern of short movie reviews, given my wife and I are regularly seeing movies since the holidays.  Today was ...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

See "The Post"

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Just saw The Post.  Having lived through  the time, living in downtown DC and as a regular reader of both the Washington Post and the NYTime...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Wind River

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Saw the movie today and liked it. Written by the same guy who did Hell or High Water and Sicario, both of which we liked.  Atmosphere a bit ...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Detroit

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Just saw Ms. Bigelow's new movie: Detroit. It's similar to her previous three movies: K-19, the Widowmaker, Hurt Locker, and Zer...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Conservatives Surprise: Movie Reviews

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Scott Johnson, a conservative at Powerline, is someone I rarely, perhaps never, agree with.  So his reviews of Fences, Hidden Figures, and ...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

Loving Trump

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Just saw the movie "Loving".  Quite good, will be on some Oscar lists, but not up to last year's Spotlight.  That said, this t...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

The Future of Jobs? From Linen to Games

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We've gotten into Game of Thrones, now on season 2.  Last night the commentary mentioned Banbridge.  Banbridge is a town in County Dow...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Bullwhipping Phd

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Via Scholarly Kitchen , this video.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The Lady in the Van

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Enjoyed this movie very much.  I see on Rottentomatoes that the critics liked it better than the public (92 percent to 75). I suspect the di...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Don't See "Hail Caesar"

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Don't see it, that is, unless you're over 65 or are devoted to post WWII movies.  If you meet either of those conditions, see it.  I...