Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXIX (February + Partial March 2023)

I didn't quite watch all of the Oscar films, but I made a decent dent! Plus the latest in MCU, of course.

Tár | Causeway | Aftersun | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Close | Empire of Light | Babylon | The Fabelmans | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Triangle of Sadness | The Sea Beast | Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXVIII (January 2023)

The time has come, y'all! OSCAR WATCHING SEASON. I do like January as a movie-watching month--it's a good mix of genre stuff and awards bait stuff, and sometimes those two things even overlap.

Willow | Black Adam | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Top Gun: Maverick | The Banshees of Inisherin | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | RRR | Elvis | Fire of Love | All Quiet on the Western Front | Shortcomings | Fancy Dance

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXII (February 2022)

It's Oscar season, folks!

King Richard | Belfast | Uncharted | Luca | House of Gucci | Ascension

King Richard, 08 February 2022, Blu-ray via Redbox
It's, like, three minutes into the film when some white tennis coach tells the eponymous Richard to have his girls learn basketball instead and HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL no.

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXX (September 2021)

Wild Mountain Thyme, 26 September 2021, streamed via Hulu
Our theatre department is doing a production of Outside Mullingar, and this movie is written and directed by the playwright, John Patrick Shanley, so here we are. Jamie Dornan has a real young-Colin-Firth vibe going on here. And Emily Blunt, well, I would probably follow her anywhere. (Jon Hamm continues to absolutely NAIL the market on handsome, hollow-eyed capitalists.)

Anyway, this is a cute if unremarkable rom-com and then it is revealed the major obstacle between our two heroes is that my dude thinks he's a honeybee.

You read that right.

Only Lovers Left Alive, 26 September 2021, streamed via Prime Video
They had me at Hiddleston, yeah? Tilda Swinton is divine. (She, alas, barely seems to have learned from her unfortunate demand that Margaret Cho explain whitewashing to her a few years ago.) Plus, John Hurt as bitter Kit Marlowe. And oh, ow ow ow, the late Anton Yelchin is in this, ow. My heart.