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As of this writing, it's January 12th, and I've already watched my second foreign language film of the year! I wonder how long it took me to watch a non-English movie in 2025? (Actually, the answer to that depends on whether Flow counts or not. It's a foreign made picture, sure, but it has no language to speak of) Anyway, today's movie comes to you due to the fact that I have seen a lot of Letterboxd friends log this movie recently--with pretty high scores for it!--and I deci

Some films tell a family story. Sentimental Value  feels like it wandered into your own, quietly rearranged a few memories, and then left you to sit with the mess. Joachim Trier’s latest is a father–daughter drama on the surface, but under that it’s a film about time, about the way we turn life into narrative, and about how cinema becomes a substitute language when we don’t know how to speak honestly to the people closest to us. It’s also easily sitting in my top ten of the

I know Netflix kind of hangs its hat on shows these days, but I have always been a movie guy, and I'm glad to see they still release so many new original films. I like television programs, sure, but they're an awful big commitment. Several seasons of several episodes, all lasting between thirty and sixty minutes each. Sometimes much more if you enjoy something like Stranger Things! That's a time commitment of, like, twenty-ish hours or so on a low average. The wife and I rece

I need to watch more of the classic Universal Horror features from the 1930's through 1950's. I've seen a handful of them, sure, but there are several more out there. For instance, I have skipped The Mummy and The Phantom Of The Opera because I had heard they didn't quite measure up to the rest. But maybe I'll dig them anyway when I try them out. My favorites at the point to what I've seen are The Creature From The Black Lagoon , The Invisible Man , and The Bride Of Franken

After thirty years of planning, Guillermo del Toro breathes new life into Frankenstein — an operatic Gothic marvel that’s as emotionally rich as it is visually breathtaking.

I recently combed through the 2025 new releases that I've seen so far to come up with the movies and performances that are both some of...