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 …
Rating: 2 hours, 34 minutesRuntime: PG-13Director: James Mangold Quick Impressions: My mother would have liked this movie, especially the ending. She was thrilled to see one particular character return for The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and I’m sure she’d be delighted by Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Director: Wes Anderson Quick Impressions: Once again, we’re behind on movies. I’ve been busy writing, going to the beach, and giving away all my worldly possessions. (It’s nothing sinister. I’ve just discovered that while I loathe the frustrating transience of housework, I’m a …
