Everything deserves at least one viewing
Welcome back for another installment of Disc Dive! This week we’re heading to outer space for Gravity. Title: Gravity Director: Alfonso Cuarón Released: August 28, 2013 (Premiere – Venice Film Festival – Italy) Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes Disc Format: DVD Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is on her first space mission along with veteran…
This time around my Letterboxd Map journey takes me to Togo for Ashakara. Title: Ashakara Director: Gérard Louvin Released: January 1, 1991 (Theatrical – Togo) Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes A viral outbreak is resisting Western medicine, and village elder Dodi (Gbegnedji Yawavi) has a remedy: fermented roots steeped with a sacred stone that keeps…
This week on Disc Dive we’re starting the week off right. We’re going to have a shpadoinkle day as we look at Cannibal! The Musical. Title: Cannibal! The Musical Director: Trey Parker Released: October 31, 1993 (Premiere – Boulder, Colorado) Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes Disc Format: DVD Alferd Packer (Trey Parker) sits on trial…
For this week’s look at a featured Letterboxd List I turn to Akira Kurosawa’s 100 Favorite Movies, where I find The Thin Man. Title: The Thin Man Director: W.S. Van Dyke Released: May 25, 1934 (Theatrical – United States) Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes Clyde Wynant (Edward Ellis) is a scientist with unfinished business. He fires…
You know how everyone has those movies they’ve never seen that make you go “seriously?!” Well, this week for Disc Dive I address one of mine with The Sandlot. Title: The Sandlot Director: David Mickey Evans Released: April 7, 1993 (Theatrical – United States) Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes Disc Format: Blu-ray Scotty Smalls (Tom…
My latest effort to cross off a country on my Letterboxd Map brings me to Bangladesh where I found The Clay Bird. Title: The Clay Bird Director: Tareque Masud Released: November 8, 2002 (Theatrical – Bangladesh) Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes In a small village in late 1960s East Pakistan, young Anu lives with his…
What do you hear? What do you say? For this week’s Disc Dive, I’m taking a look at Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Title: Angels with Dirty Faces Director: Michael Curtiz Released: November 26, 1938 (Theatrical – United States) Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes Disc Format: Blu-ray Childhood friends Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat…
One of the newer additions to the featured Letterboxd Lists is top films by decade. This week, that took me back to the Top 50 Films of the 1910s, where I found Behind the Screen. Title: Behind the Screen Director: Charlie Chaplin Released: November 13, 1916 (Theatrical – United States) Runtime: 24 minutes Behind the…
This week’s Disc Dive takes us to Belgium. Let’s do some sightseeing as I revisit In Bruges. Title: In Bruges Director: Martin McDonagh Released: January 17, 2008 (Sundance Film Festival) Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes Disc Format: Blu-ray Ray (Colin Farrell) is a hitman whose first assignment goes wrong. While carrying out a hit inside…
This week, my Letterboxd Map journey takes me to Mongolia, where Aberrance reminds me why I should keep my curtains closed. Title: Aberrance Director: Baatar Batsukh Released: August 1, 2022 (Theatrical – Mongolia) Runtime: 1 hour 16 minutes A woman runs through the snowy woods in a panic, seemingly trying to escape something just out…