For each movie in the top 100, I’ve written a question to answer. (It would get very, very boring for me to have to write some variation on “boy howdy, you’ll never believe how good this movie is” one hundred more times.) There’s no exact sentence or word count I’m holding myself to here, but… Read More Top 250 American Movies: 61-70
I’m going to be shy of 600 first watches for the year, and although my caveman instinct to applaud round numbers is a little revolted by that miss, it’s worth noting that I’ll have seen more movies new to me during 2021 than I have in any other year of my life. I love watching… Read More 2021 Year-End Review: 25 Favorite First Watches
Dir. Joan Micklin Silver. Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk There are more romantic movies set in New York City than there are total movies set in Idaho, but the New York of these movies is so often a basically nonspecific one. To choose one (that I like!) at random, Set It Up is a perfectly… Read More Crossing Delancey (1988)
Seeing Things Secondhand 