The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is Follow That Bird (1985), directed by Ken Kwapis. The updated and maintained list of options for “Make Me Watch It” can be found here. You can name up to ten movies you’d like me to cover here. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Category Archives: Movies
Settle Your Post-Infinity War Nerves with Ant-Man & The Wasp
We could use a few laughs right about now.
“Avengers: Infinity War” – Spoiler-free Movie Review
The culmination of a decade’s worth of planning is coming to a close. Do NOT allow yourself to be spoiled. I will not put spoilers in this review. Please spoiler guard comments with the appropriate tags, as well.
Steven Spielberg to make a DCU Blackhawk movie
DC has announce that Spielberg will be making a film based on the comparatively obscure (that is, to non-comix-readers) Blackhawks comic.
Whether it takes place in the quasi-established DCU remains uncertain, but I think it has potential. Like Iron Man, the mainstream will come to it with few source-based expectations, and, if I recollect correctly, Spielberg has had a hit or two with films set in the same era.
Bureau 42’s Movie List Viewing Challenge: Make Me Watch It Podcast #16
The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is plural. I’ve watched 32/52 movies for the Bureau 42 movie list viewing challenge so far this year, and this is a quick summary of those titles. The updated and maintained list of options for “Make Me Watch It” can be found here. You can name up to ten movies you’d like me to cover here. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Weekend Review: The Theory of Everything (2014)
Today Cambridge buries the late, great Stephen Hawking. Back in 2014, they gave him a biopic, which Hawking considered “broadly true” in recounting his life. Others have been critical of liberties taken with the source material, and the depiction of specific characters.
In memory of Hawking, we’re reviewing it today.
Movie Review – Ready Player One
Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel was optioned for the screen before it had even hit publication. Steven Spielberg signed on to direct, and brought this nostalgia trip to the screen.
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Weekend Review: Westworld (1973)
We’ve recently reviewed the first season of Westworld and many viewers await the second installment. Long before the series, however, we had this film, which became a kind of late-night classic.
The original 70s Westworld, like Battlestar Galactica, made the superior, twenty-first century series possible. it also features Star Trek‘s Majel Barett in a minor role. This actually meant she was faring better than the rest of the TOS cast at the time. Shatner was shilling for a Canadian supermarket chain, Nimoy taking largely forgotten roles, and Deforest Kelley doing guest-spots in obscure TV series and that notorious 70s stinker, Night of the Lepus.
Move Discussion: A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle’s award-winning 1962 novel introduced many young readers to SF, and began a series that remains popular.
The Walt Disney adaptation began its theatrical run last week, playing to decidedly mixed reviews.
Here’s the place to discuss it.
“La La Land” (2016): Make Me Watch It #15
The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is La La Land (2016), directed by Danien Chazelle. The updated and maintained list of options for “Make Me Watch It” can be found here. You can name up to ten movies you’d like me to cover here. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.