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Category: Movies

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  • A Space Movie by Caroline Klidonas

    Caroline Klidonas created an entertaining space movie without ever leaving her apartment. Hilarious and enthralling.

  • Top 10 animal movie performances

    The Ringer proposes a top 10 list of animal movie performances. Amusing at the very least, and the top choice is, well, a choice.

  • Lettervoxd

    A fun site if you like worms: Lettervoxd. Look up where words used in movies.

  • New York Times 100 best movies since 2000

    The New York Times compiled a list of the 100 best movies since 2000. All in all, it’s solid list, and to me, the top pick is deserving. Included in the list, are check boxes so you can track which ones you have seen, what/need to see, and even submit your own top 10 choices. I’ve seen 80, and here’s my top choices in no particular order.

  • Whac-a-mole movie

    No, it’s not The Onion. A Whac-a-mole movie is in development.

  • Speed in 4K

    Pop quiz hotshot. What 90s action movie starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper holds up nearly 30 years later?

    Speed in 4K

    It check all the boxes you want in in action movie:

    ✔️ a cool underdog to root for
    ✔️ a charismatic villain
    ✔️ a diverse cast of side characters adding life to the story
    ✔️ tight pacing with just enough breaks to catch your breath
    ✔️ snappy dialogue
    ✔️ thrilling action sequences that defy physics
    ✔️ explosions
    ✔️ a satisfying ending

    The cinematography and camera work look excellent in 4K. One thing I appreciated was the sound mixing. The dialogue wasn’t drowned out by music or action, something that seems to be rare these days.

  • The Oscar Best Picture Nominees, each uniquely weird

    Wesley Morris ties all the 2025 Oscar Best Picture Nominees with a common thread: they’re each uniquely weird.

    They’re weird — every single one. They take weird forms. The people in them do weird stuff. They induce weirdness in you.

    I’ve seen 9 out of 10 of the nominees (still waiting for I’m Still Here to be available), and my vote would either be Conclave or Anora. Each contains beautifully composed cinematography for their respective stories with casts that held my attention the entire time. But they’re vastly different. Conclave runs along as a tense thriller, while Anora is a fable with a Three Stooges episode in the middle.

    And regarding Wicked, I texted two friends:

    begrudgingly and surprisingly enjoying it. It’s like skittles in movie musical form

  • The story of Neon films

    Whenever you see the buzzing, fuchsia Neon title card, you know your going to get at the very least something different and interesting. Eric Ducker at the Ringer tells of how six people in a WeWork space grew to a 55 person team consistently supporting awards campaigns.

  • Cabin in the Woods 4k

    I think Cabin in the Woods still succeeds in deconstructing the horror movie genre while placing Easter eggs as callouts to other movies and stories.

    Beginning with the cheery introductions of our characters, with an early career Chris Hemsworth playing the quintessential jock, the film leads us down a road to the middle of nowhere and stopping at a rundown gas station complete with a grizzled, creepy old man. Once the sun sets, Evil Dead vibes consume the woods, and our team makes the first of a series of bad decisions, descending to the basement, because a horror movie cannot exist without a series of bad decisions. If you pay attention to all of the different objects spread throughout the room, you’ll be rewarded when the film reveals the imprisoned menagerie of monsters.

    Chaos ensues. As the gang is killed off, we meet our villain, played by Sigourney Weaver, who attempts to reason with our final girl, played by Kristen Connelly. Typically, the final girl perseveres with grit, determination, and wits–the last person with any agency to make a choice–to defeat the villain and survive. Connelly’s character makes a choice that makes the ending surprising and unique.

  • MGM now owns James Bond

    For the last six months, I’ve been going through the James Bond movies in order. I’m about halfway through and it’s fun watching them as time capsules to the eras that they were made. Amazon now has full control as to what they’ll pack into future installments.

    The common refrain regarding this move is how will Amazon screw this up. Dilute Bond with so many poor quality spin offs like Disney did to Marvel and Star Wars? Or crank out shoddy movies to cash in on the name?

    John Gruber probably had the most astute takeaway:

    Amazon taking control of James Bond is like McDonald’s taking over a great steakhouse chain like Del Frisco’s.