Best Picture: #83Original Release Date: November 26, 2010Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 58 minutesDirector: Tom Hooper Quick Impressions:My daughter’s been home recovering from a severe second-degree sunburn on her legs, so we had time to watch a Best Picture winner together in the daytime. (It was nice to cuddle up together …
Best Picture: #81 Original Release Date: November 12, 2008Rating: RRuntime: 2 hoursDirector: Danny Boyle Quick Impressions:Slumdog Millionaire is a much different watch after you’ve had a successful run on a gameshow. Now that I’ve been on Jeopardy!, one of these scenes engendered a greater sense of panic in me than …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hours, 45 minutes Director: Craig Gillespie Quick Impressions: My husband followed the GameStop stock surge with great interest. Unfortunately, that’s not a pun. I don’t think we owned any shares of GameStop stock. But he did dabble in the stock market back in 2020 when we …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes Director: Kenneth BranaghWriter: Michael Green (adapted from Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party) Quick Impressions: “Snip! Snap Dragon!” My mother was such a Poirot enthusiast that when my daughter was little, she always imagined my late grandpa as David Suchet in costume. It’s easy to see …
Best Picture: #80 Original Release Date: November 9, 2007 Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Quick Impressions: My daughter liked No Country for Old Men. Nihilism holds more appeal for her than romance or war. “That’s a clever movie,” she remarked at the end. …
Best Picture: #79 Original Release Date: October 6, 2006 Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours 31 minutes Director: Martin Scorsese Quick Impressions: After watching The Departed, my daughter and I made an exciting discovery. Now there remain only ten Best Picture winners she hasn’t seen. (You could reasonably reduce that estimate …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes Director: Neil Blomkamp Writers: Jason Hall, Zach Baylin, Alex Tse Quick Impressions:Movies would sell more tickets and get better audience reviews if they all included a Q&A with the production team afterwards. Live Q&As don’t happen too often around here, but a pre-recorded …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 39 minutes Directors: Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears Writers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jeff Rowe Quick Impressions: School starts next week, so we were excited to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem as a last hurrah of the summer. My son has been refreshingly hyped for …
Rating: RRuntime: 3 hours Director: Christopher Nolan Writer: Christopher Nolan Quick Impressions: Barbenheimer weekend continues. Because of “logistical difficulties” (a somewhat cold way of referring to my eight-year-old son), I couldn’t watch Barbie and Oppenheimer in one long binge, but I did see Barbie Friday night at 7:00, Oppenheimer the …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutesDirector: Greta GerwigWriters: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach Quick Impressions: I’ve accidentally blundered into being part of a phenomenon. I love it when that happens. I’m having a Barbenheimer weekend. I love finding myself in a moment. It makes me feel like I’m starring in an …
