Watched Mar 06, 2023 Too tired to write a coherent review, but this was very good! #womentalkingmovie #oscarwinner #bestadaptedscreenplay #oscarnominee #2023oscars #moviereview #2022film #Sactownmoviebuffs #Sactownmoviebuffsfilmfest #filmcritic

Watched Mar 05, 2023 Very strong stuff. A super solid war-is-hell movie. Can’t think of too much to say because there are a lot of movies like this, but I don’t think that’s something that should be held against it. More important is that it is completely compelling, haunting, incredibly intense, brutal, shocking, and eerily beautiful at times. Makes me long for the days when I would have seen this on the big screen. Yes, there are a lot of war movies like this. Here’s anothe

Watched Mar 08, 2023 This is a fantastic War Film! All Quiet on the Western Front is a war film set in WWII and centers around a group of young German Solider who are enlisted in Germany Army and are stationed at the Western Front of France. This is a Best Picture Nominee at the 2023 Oscars. This a fantastic War Film! The film shows a bit of both side of the war, mostly centered around the Germany Army but it also gives time for the French Army as well. The action is great, a

Watched Mar 04, 2023 Sorry, but this was a real non-sTÁRter for me. It is of course really well-made and Cate Blanchett is predictably great, but it’s a cold, empty movie that is also blunt, ugly, and obvious. 🤷‍♂️ Did not enjoy. Glad you all love it, but I desperately need to watch something with a pulse now. #tarmovie #oscarnominee #moviereview #2022film #Sactownmoviebuffs #Sactownmoviebuffsfilmfest #filmcritic

Watched Mar 04, 2023 Tar stars Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tar, a professional Orchestra Conductor who is involved in several scandals including Sexual Abuse of Power, and some other issues that have threatened her position at her Academy. The film also co-stars Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover and Mark Strong. I enjoyed this film and thought the acting was great. The film is a bit long, however. Blanchett delivers a powerful performance, but I just wished t

Watched Feb 26, 2023 Gonna be honest, I was fully prepared to hate this. I even had a few different pithy, dismissive one-or-two-sentence reviews in my head before I even started it. I just had a feeling that it would be one of those heavily hyped experimental horror movies that I get super psyched about and then end up bored out of my mind at how pretentious it is. “Who needs this artsy-fartsy, navel-gazing claptrap when I could be watching Evil Dead 2 and having fun instead

Watched Feb 18, 2023 Brian and Charles is a British comedy about a man named Brian who is somewhat of a loner and a failed inventor who builds an A.I. Robot as a companion. The Robot named Charles, can talk, think, and learn but is also very humorous. Charles basically starts off an infant but clearly grows up and becomes somewhat of a rebellious teenager who wants to be able to go out on his own, but Brain fears what will happen to him if his neighbors or anyone finds out ab

Watched Feb 14, 2023 I’d been somewhat mixed on Benson and Moorhead before. I liked (but didn’t quite love) Resolution and Synchronic. And while I love the ideas behind Spring and The Endless, I didn’t much enjoy those films. But this? This is very much my kind of enigmatic, cosmic insanity. A bare-bones description would be to say that it’s about two neighbors (Benson and Moorhead themselves) who start to notice and document very strange phenomena in their L.A. apartment com

Watched Feb 04, 2023 Watcher is a Horror Film about a young couple who move from the US to Romania. The boyfriend receives a promotion at work and is required to move there for his job as he speaks both Romanian and English, whereas the girlfriend only speaks English. While the boyfriend is at work, the girl is at the apartment and notices what she believes is someone watching her from an adjacent apartment. She also learns about a serial killer in her neighborhood who is tar