Two sentences per movie. The last time I did a retro movie diary, I had three weeks to catch up on. Now I have…more than that. No sweat! Seabiscuit, 2003, dir. Gary Ross / I wasn’t prepared to enjoy this as much as I did, but, ahem, never count out the power of an ornery… Read More Movie Diary 2023 (4/6-5/31): Let’s Just Get Through May to Start
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Before we start, a little inside baseball about my process. I like the research angle of these big ol’ lists I do. There’s a lot of watching and rewatching, and maybe even more time poring through the work that… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 5-2
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. The great romantic comedy of 1977 was never Annie Hall, but The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Let’s see Alvy Singer love himself as much as Pooh loves pots of honey during the middle of a flash flood. (“What I… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 25-21
Dir. David Hand. Starring Paula Winslowe, Bobby Stewart, Peter Behn Dir. Edgar Wright. Starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey The gentle young man who loses the mother who protected him and raised him is a common enough trope, but what makes Bambi and Baby stand out is that they have the dumbest names of… Read More Bambi (1942) and Baby Driver (2017)
