Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes Director: Amy Poehler Quick Impressions: I had been meaning to watch this documentary for what felt like an eternity but may in actuality have been only a week. (I feel a bit lost in time. I’ll blame Daylight Savings Time, although that makes …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 55 minutes Director: Matt Reeves Quick Impressions: If you like going to the movies, you’ll like The Batman. Who doesn’t enjoy kicking back on the couch and streaming away? If you’re hungry for content, seeking stimulation or escapism, staying in and flipping on the TV …
Rating: Unrated (or TV-MA on HBO Max)Runtime: 2 hours, 59 minutesDirector: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Quick Impressions: One day when pandemics are a thing of the past, I’m going to figure out a way to go to Cannes, so I don’t always end up watching films like this at the last minute …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 7 minutesDirector: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Before my mother became the world’s biggest fan of David Suchet’s Poirot, there was a time when I was in high school that she and my grandma used to watch Peter Ustinov in the 1978 film Death on the …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes Director: Pedro Almodóvar Quick Impressions: It’s pretty hard to beat a Pedro Almodóvar movie starring Penélope Cruz. I’ve been excited to see Parallel Mothers for a while, but I didn’t expect it to be my favorite movie of 2021. (I did just see …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet Quick Impressions:My daughter and I were supposed to see Hamilton together in San Antonio as one of her birthday presents on Saturday, January 15th. Then we discovered to our dismay that the show had been postponed because …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Director: Joel Coen Quick Impressions: First of all, I want to live in the Macbeths’ house! Their castle is amazing! They appear to have no possessions whatsoever. There are absolutely no furnishings in this castle unless someone needs to go to sleep, eat a …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes Director: Sían Heder Quick Impressions: My daughter has Covid-19 (mild case, knock on wood), so instead of going out, we’re using this week to catch up on potential Oscar contenders we haven’t seen yet on Apple TV. (Time permitting, we’ll check out other streaming …
Best Picture: #78 Original Release Date: May 6, 2005 (with a September 10, 2004 release at the Toronto Film Festival) Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes Director: Paul Haggis Quick Impressions: It’s possible that Crash is my least favorite Best Picture winner. (My friends always seem shocked when I …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal Quick Impressions: Olivia Colman is a great actress, and I’m always happy to see a movie if she’s in it. (Seriously my husband and I went to that Appalachian snake-handling movie mostly because of her. It’s called Them That Follow …
