Category Archives: Film Listings/Ratings

Very good. Tony Leung is such an awesome screen presence and it’s so good to see him here after watching several Wong Kar-Wai films over the last few weeks. The martial arts fight scenes are fantastic and the actors are all likeable and have good chemistry. Of course it ends in a classic Marvel CGIContinue reading “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Destin Daniel Cretton – 2021) B”

It starts off innocently enough as Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) asks to rent an apartment in Paris. It seems the woman who was living there jumped from the window for unknown reasons. He moves in and of course is curious about what happened to her. With a lot of inspiration from Hitchcock’s Rear Window and aContinue reading “The Tenant (Roman Polanski – 1976) A-“

A mutual friend’s funeral brings our cast of characters together for a weekend in South Carolina. He killed himself and these college group of friends all living disparate lives with various levels of contentment and success are back together. They talk, drink, reminisce and have their ups and downs. Why did their buddy (we neverContinue reading “The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan – 1983) A-“

2046 is a year, it’s place, it’s a sci-fi novel within a movie we are watching set in mostly the 1960s Hong Kong. Initially we think this is a sci-fi film as it opens on the train and voice over telling us about how some go to 2046, never come back. Quickly though we areContinue reading “2046 (Kar-Wai Wong – 2004) A”

Disorienting in the beginning. What’s going on? Who are these people and who should I focus on. This lady is wearing a blond wig and raincoat. Right? Why? No one seems t have a name. The café/diner owner seems to know some names though. Then I settled in and went with the circular winding flowContinue reading “Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong – 1994) A”

The weird camera lens Soderbergh chose to use was a bit distracting, figured I’ll say that right out the door. The film though has some excellent performances and is so well-made. Tells the story set in the 60s about something I doubt most people had any clue about. Sure, it is disguised as a heist,Continue reading “No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh – 2021) B+”

It’s good. Nice setting, some good pesto, fun simple story and it looks great.

Excellent cheesy and solid B movie that at once is smack dab in the middle of that style (sex, violence, gore,…) and yet transcends it with long dialogue-free sequences, cool camera angles and several well-developed characters. The problem is when you cast Gregg Henry in a film I’m immediately thinking “oh, he’s the bad guy…”.Continue reading “Body Double (Brian De Palma – 1984) B+”