I See Movies, 2017 Edition
A list for thems what like lists.
Category Archives: I Like to Watch
Tom Waits’s Big Time Is Beautiful, And I’m Sorry You Can’t Watch It
Tom Waits made a bizarre, unique concert film people didn’t understand when it opened? And it’s actually wonderful? How very surprising.
The Karate Kid is Kind of Great
In which we revisit the ’80s classic and find it terribly charming.
We Like to Watch
Cruise futilely through Netflix listings no more! Waste no more evenings watching films that deliver naught but aggravation and maybe an exploding school bus. Visit our newly rejiggered I Like to Watch list and be wise beyond your years.
On Fate and Fury
No single acceptable filmmaking decision led us here. The vast tower of bad choices became something else: a history, a promise.
Free Fire Is A Blast
It’s the My Dinner With Andre of movie gunfights.
You’re Gonna Get In To Get Out
The horror that is white people.
It’s Soviet Cinema Time! – The Cranes Are Flying & Letter Never Sent
In which we note the breathtaking cinematography of Sergey Urusevsky in two damn fine films.
Paterson: The Drama of The Undramatic
Jim Jarmusch has another poem to read you.
I See Movies, 2016 Edition
Lovers of lists, rejoice! Once again, I list every movie I saw this year, all the while secretly wondering just what it is I think I’m doing with my life.
Christmas Evil: Best Christmas Movie Ever
In which we discover, much too late in life, that the best Christmas movie ever made has been hiding in plain sight, waiting to be found and adored.
The Woman Chaser: The Best Movie You’ve Never Seen
But you will see it. Because I insist that you do.
Tombstone Wants to Be Your Huckleberry
Come for the gunfight, stay for the performances, and immerse yourself for two hours in the legend. Or at least this version of it.
Invention For Destruction, or: Karel Zeman – The Original Steampunk
A crazy semi-animated Czech film full of pirates and submarines and giant squids. Need I say more?