December 2024
Month archive / 19 posts
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nightbitch
Ridiculous and Full of Blood
Ocean’s Thirteen
Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean’s Eleven
The American Friend
Tangerine
Tokyo Godfathers
The First Slam Dunk
Big Meat Eater
Purple Noon
Whores
You Should Have Left
Twelve Monkeys
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
The Talented Mr. Ripley
It’s All Right, My Friend
How Peter Fonda is not best known for this starring role as a tomato-averse alien with explosive ejaculate is something I will never understand
Ripley
A solid adaptation, almost slavishly true to the book, with a nod or two to the second book, one of which is frankly silly (sorry dude, that disguise ain’t fooling anyone). Eliot Sumner, progeny of Sting, playing Freddie Miles doesn’t really work for me, though I have to appreciate the stunt casting of a nepo baby in the role of an old money bon vivant, and they do successfully render the character as deeply unlikable,… See more →