Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2025 Here's the deal. I just realized I got all my requirements in for this year's Hooptober by review #29. So rather than watch films I thought I needed, I picked two films I needed. As in, "my stress level is so high I just need some FUN" needed. And... Continue Reading →
Hooptober 12.0 – Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2025 I typically don't hold out a lot of hope for sequels, especially 80s sequels to 80s movies that were themselves comedic reboots of older films. But somehow despite the loss of Dan O'Bannon Return Of The Living Dead Part II not only works as a worthy successor, it leans... Continue Reading →
Criterion Catch-Up: The Awful Truth (1937)
Watching Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth I was brought back to those weekends with my dad. He passed down to me my love for Cary Grant, watching films like Father Goose and Mr. Lucky and North By Northwest. We had nothing else in common, so I clung to those stars and movies and absorbed them... Continue Reading →
