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 →