Movie Year Director Actor Actor Ranking The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis 4 Common Threads 1989 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 16 Somewhere in Time 1980 Jeannot Szwarc Christopher Reeve Jane Seymour 70 Man Hunt 1941 Fritz Lang Walter Pidgeon Joan Bennett 71 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman Donald… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Passions: Premature Death Cliché
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
Okay, this is the hyperspeed version of a movie diary. Two sentences! Each of you movies gets two sentences! The Chosen, 1981, dir. Jeremy Kagan / Adored this movie based on the Chaim Potok novel I’ve never read and now realize I must read, given how closely this adheres to Brideshead Revisited and especially A… Read More Movie Diary 2023 (3/17-4/5): That Time I Got Really Into a Different Project and Realized That I’d Deserted a Perfectly Good Bit and Needed to Get Back to It
This one’s real late! A surprisingly busy schedule at work, the Oscars, and March Madness have all contributed. But it’s still really late! March 7th none At least it was a good day for rewatches historically? Maybe Last Temptation, The Fugitive, and Badlands don’t make for the neatest triple feature in the world, but there… Read More Movie Diary 2023 (3/7-3/16): Gamified Horror
