November 2025
You are browsing the archive for November 2025.
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition XXIX
Luckily, the recent government shutdown didn’t effect my TV viewing. Here’s a list of the shows I’ve checked out in the past several months. LOVED The Pitt (HBO) I never did watch ER, and I haven’t watched a hospital show since Code Black. But the 24-esque real-time conceit of this series really hooked me, and […]
Movie Review: Blue Moon
4 stars out of 5 That I went to see Blue Moon in the theater shows two things: One, that I trust Richard Linklater as a filmmaker and two, that I’ve come a long way in my reappreciation of Ethan Hawke. (It was Linklater’s 2014 opus Boyhood which in fact ended my quarter-century Hawke boycott.) […]
Movie Review: Bugonia
4.5 stars out of 5 This is the best Yorgos Lanthimos film that Yorgos didn’t write himself. (I’m looking at you, well-received Poor Things and The Favourite.) It best captures the very dark comedy that permeates his own scripts. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that Will Tracy wrote the screenplay, as I wasn’t […]
Movie Review: The Mastermind
3.5 stars out of 5I left this movie thinking I’d be giving it a higher rating than the aggregated writers on Metacritic. Was surprised to see that, no, it was averaging 80 out of 100, with a handful of perfect 100s from a few top reviewers. Well, I guess there’s a new hardass in town! […]
Movie Review: Frankenstein
4.5 stars out of 5 Guillermo del Toro has quietly become one of my favorite filmmakers. This is his fourth consecutive movie (after The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio) that I’ve rated 4.5 stars out of 5, and Pan’s Labyrinth is a classic as well. And via interviews, I’ve learned […]
Jack Silbert, curator