Everything deserves at least one viewing
Welcome back and thanks for joining me as I fill-in another country on my Letterboxd Map! This week we head to Slovakia and the not-so-distant future with… Restore Point (2023). Title: Restore Point Director: Robert Hloz Released: September 9, 2023 (Spain) Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes Available to stream on: Kanopy The year is 2041….
Welcome to another installment of Disc Dive! This week is a film that I’ve actually seen before, granted it was about 20 years ago. The DVD copy that I own has the original Russian-language version on one side of the disc and the English-language version on the other. For Disc Dive this week I watched…
Welcome back to another look at one of the featured Letterboxd Lists! This week we take a look at the Top 250 Women Directed list where we find today’s film sitting at number 48… Ratcatcher (1999). Title: Ratcatcher Director: Lynne Ramsay Released: May 13, 1999 (Premiere – Cannes Film Festival – France) Runtime: 1 hour…
Welcome back to the second installment of Disc Dive! There is no rhyme or reason as to how I’m picking out these discs. Since we had a Criterion disc last week, I figured why not go to the opposite end of the spectrum this week. From a Nicolas Cage 6-film collection DVD comes… Deadfall (1993)….
Welcome to the first installment of Letterboxd Map for 2026! I start the year having watched at least one film from 100 different countries. Come with me as we journey to Montenegro for number 101 with… Local Vampire (2011). Title: Lokalni Vampir (Local Vampire) Director: Branko Baletić Released: August 1, 2011 (Montenegro) Runtime: 1 hour…
This year for my weekly Monday reviews, I’m focusing on films in my physical collection in what I’m calling “Disc Dive”. As long as I have not already covered it on the blog, it is fair game. Some I may have seen dozens of times, others maybe only once or twice. There are even a…
Happy New Year! I’m kicking things off with another year of exploring the featured Letterboxd Lists. What better place to start than the Letterboxd Top 250! Let’s dance in the new year as I take a look at #55 on the list… The Red Shoes (1948). Title: The Red Shoes Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric…
Well, we made it. Our Review Stew started back on January 6th with Deluge and we’ve added an ingredient every Monday since. Today we add the final ingredient with… Weekend in Taipei (2024). Title: Weekend in Taipei Director: George Huang Released: September 19, 2024 (Qatar) Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes Available to stream on: MGM+…
Welcome back to the final Letterboxd Map installment for 2025! We end the year with a trip to Algeria where we find a political thriller in… Z (1969). Title: Z Director: Costa-Gavras Released: February 26, 1969 (France) Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes Available to stream on: Criterion Channel and HBO In an unnamed country, a…
Welcome back for the second-to-last installment of our Review Stew for 2025! This week we have a little bit of holiday horror as we try to find the answer to… Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972). Title: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? Director: Curtis Harrington Released: February 11, 1972 (United Kingdom) Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes Available…