Miscellaneous Movie Moments XCVI (September & October 2023)

August is traditionally the "we don't know where else to open these movies" dumping ground of studios, and November is the "last chance to get in the big awards nomination window" timeslot, so September and October are generally pretty chill. (Except for horror movies, but I do not watch horror movies, so.) I found myself a good batch to watch, though!

Showing Up | Bottoms | The In-Laws | A Haunting in Venice | The Creator | Dumb Money | Killers of the Flower Moon

Miscellaneous Movie Moments XCIII (May & June 2023)

I love summer movie season. I love living ten minutes away from a movie theatre. What a time to be alive!

The Hating Game | Big George Foreman | Love Again | The Green Knight | Five Easy Pieces | Fast X | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | You Hurt My Feelings | The Flash | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | The Little Mermaid (2023) | Elemental | Asteroid City | No Hard Feelings | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXVI (July/August 2022)

While I didn't watch all that many movies these past couple of months, the ones I did watch were pretty excellent. Action galore! #RepresentationMatters!



Thor: Love and Thunder | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Space Sweepers | Vengeance | Easter Sunday | Prey

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXV (April/May/June 2022)

After my Oscars binge, I vowed to take a break from prestige films and go all in on my most beloved genre, science fictiony action. It's been a good three months, let me tell you.



Death on the Nile (2022) | Stargate: Continuum | The Batman | Spider-Man: No Way Home | The Lost City | Turning Red | Moonfall | Casablanca | Galaxy Quest | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Ron's Gone Wrong | Dog | Moneyball | Morbius | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXI (January 2022)

It's Oscars season, y'all!

Venom: Let There Be Carnage | No Time to Die | Respect | | The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love | Flee | The Worst Person in the World | Encanto | The Power of the Dog | Passing | Simple as Water | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | The Lost Daughter | Procession | Don't Look Up | Faya Dayi | Being the Ricardos | tick, tick...BOOM! | Swan Song | 892 AKA Breaking

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXX (December 2021)

Marie Antoinette, 05 December 2021, DVD via university library
When, close the beginning of the movie, the titular protagonist crosses over from her native Austria and into her new home, France, then hugs the mistress of her household, bids goodbye to all her friends, is stripped of her clothing, and is robbed of her Austrian puppy (You can have as many FRENCH dogs as you want, they tell her), you sort of see how everything is already going to go wrong for her.

Movie Moments LXXVI: Guillermo Del Toro Edition

Happy Christmas, Kassy! I figured I'd do the Del Toro, in honor of our visit to At Home with Monsters. Spooky and lovely--just like you, in fact.

Previously, from the Oeuvre
Seen:
Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, The Shape of Water

Not Seen:
Cronos, Mimic, The Devil's Backbone, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth, Crimson Peak

Movie Moments LXXIV: Nolan Edition

Happy Christmas, Ellery! Not that time has any meaning anymore, so SamtsirhC YppaH or whatever. I've picked a trio of Nolan films to investigate and am looking forward to living 2022 like a matryoshka doll. Also, this is the possibly the closest my scholarly and fannish writing have ever been.



Previously, from the Oeuvre
Seen:
Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet
Not Seen:
Following, Memento, Insomnia

What's the Deal
Whenever I think of Nolan, I hear, like, a basso profundo gong strike and a rattling perception of time. The Batman movies, of course, aren't as fluid as the others--comic books do time travel, but their modules are linear. Nolan's work isn't cheery--does anybody smile, ever--but it's not exactly morose, either. It's...ontological? Ontology leaves no room for merriment.

Movie Moments XLII: August 2020 (The Matrix Edition)

I am sorry to have reminded you all that Revolutions exists.

Movie Moments XXX: June 2020 (Terminators edition)

It should be noted that I have only watched Terminator: Dark Fate and The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show. I have never seen the others before, so I am on another journey!

The Terminator, 09 June 2020, streamed via Hulu
Is it weird that, although I’ve never watched this before, I consider it one of the formative films of my childhood? I was four years old when The Terminator came out, and sometimes it feels like the next twenty years of sci-fi action were a response to it.

Movie Moments XXVIII: May 2020 (Alien edition)

I’ve never watched any of these before, so this is a grand adventure! You are getting slightly filtered, but entirely new thoughts! Meanwhile, I am slightly terrified! This is going to be gross, I’m pretty sure.

Prometheus, 26 May 2020, streamed via Google Play
I decided to watch these in chronological order, which should be fascinating, since I recall that folks were less than thrilled with whatever happened in this one.

• Crew: 17. Oh, THAT can’t be good to know. If ever there was a signal that most of the crew is toast, that is it.