Last year I began the self-appointed task of filling in one of my personal cinematic blind spots, the Friday the 13th franchise. While it hasn’t necessarily been a consistently entertaining ride thus far, at least they’ve been tolerable. Parts one through seven I watched over a four or five week stretch back in April and early May 2020, but when it came to start Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, I was stopped dead in my tracks. This movie was so hard to watch I wouldn’t finish it until almost nine months later.
For this previous Christmas I received a scratch-off poster of “Bucket List” must-see movies. This list of 100 movies is said to be compiled by combining lists from AFI, IMDb, and Academy Award-winners generally recognized as being the greatest films of all time. Because my life isn’t busy enough, I decided I will attempt to watch (or re-watch) every film on the list. As I scratch movies off the list, I will be publishing my very brief thoughts through a series of blog posts. Click here to see the Letterboxd list of films.
Just a few years ago I could’ve never imagined the number of movie and television streaming services I would eventually have access to. In many ways, having media scattered to the proverbial wind is a huge headache. We need websites like JustWatch to keep track of which services offer which content and without shelling out hundreds of dollars a month, you just need to make peace with the fact that you’re probably going to be able to watch all of the movies on that Letterboxd list. The one thing good to come out of all of these services springing up […]Read more »
In an effort to try to pump out at least a post a week here, I’m going to shake up my format a little bit and condense my thoughts on movies and TV that I’ve been watching as well as any games I might be playing. This of course will not preclude me from my normal review posts, but I appreciate any and all feedback.
At the risk of putting a repeater on everyone else in the entire world’s thoughts, 2020 was not a good year. At the beginning of the year, I tasked myself with seeing at least 50 movies in theaters. I was well on track to surpass my goal for the year when I had already seen 13 movies on-screen by mid-March. Unfortunately the nationwide lockdown quashed all hopes of me keeping my New Year’s resolution to myself, but I still managed to sneak off to see Tenet in September when the theaters reopened for one last death rattle. Don’t worry, the […]Read more »
Bill & Ted Face the Music is the third film in the “Bill & Ted” franchise, coming 29 years after the release of the previous entry Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (which itself is a sequel to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure). All three films follow the titular Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves), two dopey Californian teens (and later adults) that aspire to inspire the entire world with the shredding of their bodacious band Wyld Stallyns. Face the Music follows more in step with Excellent Adventure than it does with Bogus Journey. Whereas […]Read more »