Reviews through 02/01/20

This may be the most eclectic combination of movie reviews I’ve put forth so far. However, if you can find another review of Three Men and a Little Lady (1990) that compares it to the horror movies of Ari Aster, then you’ll get your money back. That’s the Party Now, Apocalypse Later guarantee!

• Almost Famous (2000)

• Three Days of the Condor (1975)

• Bad Boys for Life (2020)

• Three Men and a Baby (1987)

• Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)

• Harold and Maude (1971)

Reviews through 01/13/20

And so I caved on Disney+. I even bought it for the whole year. What was the deciding factor? Strangely enough Rebels and The Clone Wars. I’m a puzzle, but man, oh, man is “The Mandalorian” more than worth it, and The Child (for so it will be convenient, and more accurate to speak of the entity popularly known as Baby Yoda) is only a small part of that.

Oh, and I was also a little under the weather this week and reached for that most medicinal series of films, those featuring The Batman…

…which meant I had to write a review of one of those mid-nineties movies no one likes. Oh well. Courage.

• The People vs. George Lucas (2010)

• Return to Oz (1985)

• Moana (2016)

• Batman Forever (1995)

Reviews through 01/04/20

Listen. We could re-hash the whole “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” debate again.

And we will.

But the holidays are over, and it was supposed to be a time of togetherness, so read my thoughts on a movie I enjoy mainly because my spouse enjoys it so much.

Also, there’s a good Transformers movie out there. Who knew?

• Bond: GoldenEye (1995)

• Die Hard (1988)

• Sky High (2005)

• Steve Jobs (2015)

• Bumblebee (2018)

2019 (and the 2010s) in Review

I ended this decade as I think everyone probably should have. I started watching Back to the Future Part III (1990) at around 10:30PM. I fell asleep shortly after Marty (Michael J. Fox) tumbled over the McFly farm and woke up again hearing firing works signaling the new decade right about the time Mad Dog Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) took a tumble into manure and started his family on Buddhist feces-based hell.

2019 had its moments. So did the decade. I think back to where I was on New Year’s Eve 2009, and life seemed quite a bit different then than it did on the same date in 1999. There’s probably a reason for that. If one has exactly the same life at 25 that they had when they were 15, they’re probably a ward of the state.

Still, there is a sense that my interior life is somewhat the same now at 35 as it was at 25. That may be more of a comment on the day job than anything else. It’s still there, pulsating like some bedeviling thing originating from the inky blackness that lives between stars. Maybe I’ll try to work on that in the 2020s.

Everything else has changed, though. I gotta remember that. 

When 2010 began I had a half-completed roughest of rough drafts of a novel, and the vaguest of inklings that I would get serious about finishing it someday soon. In 2019, by my best estimates I wrote 145,000 words. A personal record. As 2020 begins, I published my sixth book last month, and another one is nearing the finish line and should be out before the summer.

I have a complete show that you can put your ears now. It feels incredibly good to type that sentence. There were moments where The Fourth Wall seemed like it might fall in on itself. But I made sure that it’s complete. Go give it a listen, if you haven’t. Go give it a re-listen, if you’ve been with us since the beginning. I’m really proud of it, and everyone that helped make it a reality.

In the last moments of 2009, I was dating a girl. At the start of the 2010s, I immediately resolved to marry her. She acquiesced. That’s the best part.

Go read the books. Go read the blog. Go listen to the shows. I’ll be busy hanging out with her.

There will be some big changes in 2020. Many of them have already begun. I made some mistakes over the last few years. I’ll make brand new ones in the next ten years and make them with undiminished enthusiasm. Watch this space. I’ll have new things for your eyes and ears before you know it.

Now that I’ve taken stock of what I’ve put out into the world, let’s take a look at the things the world has put out. I’m usually loath to rank any list of movies. I refused to rank the Star Wars movies when I published reviews of the saga recently. Hell, aside from two-thirds of The Phantom Menace (1999), I think I like all of them. And yet, here’s ten movies over the last ten years that I have a pretty strong feeling about, in chronological order, some of which I’ve already reviewed on the site. More than a few of them are from the last twelve months. Memory is like that, although I stand by Us (2019), as I’ve managed to watch that movie five time and it’s only nine months old. There are plenty of other great movies, and if I think about this list for even a second longer, I’ll probably make more changes to it. Glad that there’s only three sequels and two Marvel movies in the batch. I live in the world, just like everybody else.

1.     The Social Network (2010)

2.     The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

3.     Pacific Rim (2013)

4.     The Lego Movie (2014)

5.     Creed (2015)

6.     Star Wars – Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)

7.     Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (2018)

8.     Us (2019)

9.     Avengers: Endgame (2019)

10.   Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Looking over the list of movies released this decade to make the above the list, I was struck by a few things. Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019) were nearly ten years apart. Kickass (2010) feels like it happened a thousand years ago. The internet maintains that somebody remade Flashdance in 2011. I have no memory of the film existing and maintain that the internet is trying to play a trick on me.

And now, my reading list for the year. Somewhere I reached ludicrous speed with my reading and far exceeded my reading goal of 62 books. Maybe I read too many books based on television shows with the word “Star” in the title, but what is a boy to do while waiting for Jean-Luc Picard to make his long-heralded return? As usual, an (a) indicates an audio book. I don’t count graphic novels, but I should probably get over that in the new year.

1. Robin (a)

2. The Green Mile (a)

3. The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard

4. The Return of Sherlock Holmes (a)

5. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

6. Hope Never Dies (a)

7. Technical Writing for Business People

8. I'll Be Gone In the Dark (a)

9. The Odyssey File

10. Ghosts of our Past (a)

11. The Way to the Stars (a)

12. The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy 

13. The Valley of Fear (a)

14. A Writer's Guide to Persistence 

15. The Right Stuff (a)

16. Conversations with my Agent (a)

17. Observations on Certain Documents Contained in No. V & VI of "The History of the United States for the year 1796," In Which the Charge of Speculation Against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, is Fully Refuted, Written by Himself (Otherwise known as “The Reynolds Pamphlet”)

18. His Last Bow (a)

19. On Power (a)

20. Death in Winter 

21. The Final Days

22. Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke (a)

23. The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Shiloh (a)

24. Fire Up Your Writing Brain

25. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (a)

26. Jedi The Last

27. At The Mountains of Madness (a)

28. How to Write Groundhog Day 

29. Fahrenheit 451 (a)

30. Slaughterhouse Five (a)

31. Eliza Hamilton

32. In The Shower With Picasso

33. Molly's Game (a)

34. Hidden Figures (a)

35. Casino Royale (a)

36. Taking Wing

37. 2001: A Space Odyssey (a)

38. The Grip Of Film

39. On Poetics

40. The President's Club (a)

41. The Handmaid's Tale (a)

42. Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus 

43. 1984: Spring, a choice of futures

44. Cosmos (a)

45. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

46. Becoming (a)

47. The Red King

48. Captain to Captain (a)

49. Copper and Cobalt

50. A Tale Of Two Cities (a)

51. Waiting For Godot

52. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (a)

53. Through The Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There

54. The Field Of Blood (a)

55. The Godfather (a)

56. The 007 Diaries (a)

57. Star Trek Phase II

58. I, Robot (a)

59. How To Talk Dirty and Influence People (a)

60. Patriot Games (a)

61. Articles of the Federation 

62. Mr. Mike

63. All Good Things...

64. Helter Skelter (a)

65. The Curse of Capistrano 

66. Resistance

67. The Innovators (a)

68. Q and A

69. The Gatekeepers (a)

70. Before Dishonor

71. The Once and Future King (a)

72. Q Are Cordially Invited

73. The Enterprise War (a)

74. Mr. Arkadin

75. The Stand (a)

76. Leonardo da Vinci (a)

77. The Great Movies

78. A Woman First: First Woman (a)

79. Unity

80. Ayoade on Top (a)

81. Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders (a)

82. Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life (a)

83. More Letters From A Nut

84. The Fourth Wall Script Book

85. Steve Jobs

86. You Are Special

Review List: The Star Wars Saga

• Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

• Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

• Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

• Solo - A Star Wars Story (2018)

• Rogue One - A Star Wars Story (2016)

• Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

• Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

• Star Wars – Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi (1983)

• Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

• Star Wars – Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)

• Star Wars – Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

  Bonus Entries

• THX 1138 (1971)

• American Graffiti (1973)

• The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Reviews through 12/18/19

Just a quick update for the moment. I’m working on a larger one for this weekend. I may have a certain saga to weigh in on in total.

• Knives Out (2019)

• The Irishman (2019)

Reviews through 12/08/19

An over-due check in, and I’ve been watching more than a few movies. I can’t for the life of me figure out why I’m starting to re-watch the Star Wars prequels. Must have some kind of new laser sword movie coming up.

• The Aviator (2004)

• Saved! (2004)

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

• The Monster Squad (1987)

• Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

• Star Wars – Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

Reviews for the week of 11/10/19-11/16/19

I’m still trying to… oh, what’s the word? Relax? That’s mostly taken the shape of playing through ever quest—no matter how frustratingly inane—on Batman: Arkham City and rewatching “Silicon Valley” for what I think is the fourth time. It may have been a week well-spent. Only time will tell. Actually, I’m quietly unravelling. I need to start making stuff again. Soon. Anyway, enjoy these reviews.

• The King of Comedy (1983) (Reviewed 11/16/19)

• Bad Boys II (2003) (Reviewed 11/16/19)

Reviews for the week of 11/3/19-11/9/19

Another banner week for weird variety.

• Mr. Arkadin AKA Confidential Report (1955)

• Gangs of New York (2002)

• Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

• Doctor Sleep (2019)

• Bad Boys (1995)

Reviews for the week of 10/27/19-11/02/19

Definitely back on the wagon in the movie watching department! I’m weirdly proud of the variety on display here. A little bit of pre-blockbuster 1970s stuff, the highs and lows of Spielberg, a streaming-only movie based on a web series, and a new release. I like watching movies, and I missed doing it. Consumption!

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2018)

• Jurassic Park (1993)

• Between Two Ferns The Movie (2019)

• Taxi Driver (1976)

• The Sting (1973)

• Terminator Dark Fate (2019)

Reviews for the week of 10/15/19-10/21/19

And so my long road of post-production has come to an end. Thus, I can come up for air and decide how I feel about the pop cultural events of the day. I even watched the premiere of “Watchmen.” When I started these reviews, I didn’t anticipate the sort of annoying chore that it would be to come up with something new to say about Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker, but here we are.

But enough about that, I need to go watch the trailer for The Rise of Skywalker.

• El Camino — A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) (Reviewed 10/21/19)

• Joker (2019) (Reviewed 10/21/19)

Reviews for the week of 09/17/19-09/23/19

A quick update this week. Two movies, both part two’s. A 2x2x2, if you will. Gremlins 2 is one of the greatest films of all time, don’t @ me. How I still manage to avoid reviewing Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982) is completely beyond me.

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1984)

• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

The Star Trek Movies (minus the best and the worst)

Didn’t watch hardly any movies this week. Busy creating my own stuff. Did manage to catch the Fathom screening of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). And, it’s… Well, it’s still The Motion Picture. So, to offer you, dear reader, a far more complete movie update blog, to celebrate Star Trek day a week late, and to maybe give you a hint at some new stuff coming to this space in the near future, I offer my reviews of all the Star Trek movies, except Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Star Trek Nemesis (2002). So somehow, in the last year or so, I haven’t watched the best Trek film or the worst.

Seriously, how have I gone this long without watching The Wrath of Khan. That probably needs to be rectified.

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

• Star Trek: Generations (1994)

• Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

• Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

• Star Trek (2009)

• Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

• Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Reviews for the week of 09/03/19-09/09/19

More busy times have pulled me away from as many reviews as I would normally post, but you can’t keep a good writer down. You can, however, seem to keep an epic story about an inter-dimensional hellbeast/murderous clown down. Such is life.

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

• IT - Chapter Two (2019)

• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Reviews for the week of 08/27/19-09/02/19

As editing for season 2 of The Fourth Wall has kicked into high gear, I kinda figured the reviews would slow down. Instead, they’ve picked up a little bit. The need to take deliberate brakes during this kind of work is essential. So, some pixar movies and a dip into the deep end of the 80s was quickly in order.

• The Incredibles (2004)

• Incredibles 2 (2018)

• WarGames (1983)

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Reviews for the week of 08/20/19-08/26/19

My pledge to do a tour of time travel movies continues unabated. Although, fair warning my review of Back to the Future Part III is one of the longer reviews I’ve written on the site, and may have devolved into more of a love letter/mission statement regarding my love for all movies. What can I say? That early-90s Universal vanity card gets me every time. God knows what I’ll write about next week, as I’m becoming mildly manic in my preoccupation with making my own stuff at the moment.

• Back to the Future Part II (1989)

• Back to the Future Part III (1990)

• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Reviews for the week of 08/13/19-08/19/19

A light week on updates, and they couldn’t be more different. On one hand, we have a film so deeply flawed that it’s virtues are hard to find, and on the other we have

Which one is which might surprise you!

No. It won’t surprise you.

Honestly, how could I have gone the year I’ve been writing these reviews and not watched Back to the Future (1985) this whole time…

For that matter, how could I have gone this long without having watched all of the Star Trek films, but I digress…

• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

• Back to the Future (1985)

Reviews for the Week of 08/06/2019-08/12/2019

New week, same as the last week. Finished up my re-watch of the Mission: Impossible series, and continued my march through the more obscure titles in the Orson Welles catalog. With The Fourth Wall recording I’ve been doing this week as I wrap up season two, I’m thinking a deep-dive into time travel movies is in the immediate future…

Or is it the past?

• Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (2015) (Reviewed 08/11/2019)

• Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018) (Reviewed 08/11/2019)

• The Stranger (1946) (Reviewed 08/11/2019)

BREAK NUMBER EIGHT: The Final Breakening

Some big announcements will follow, but there is something I really need to get off my chest.

Yes, the President is racist. Even the people that still like him know this to be true, they just would rather we not talk about it. Or—if we do talk about it—we work ourselves into a stupor over it and forget to vote in a year.

That much is obvious. That is not what I need to get off my chest. But now that we’ve gotten that out of the way:

Robert Pattinson as Batman will be just fine.

Now, of course I would prefer the world to bring back Michael Keaton into the role in some kind of Batman Beyond situation, but I’ve been saying this for years, and there is still plenty of time to make that happen.

Every reaction to Pattinson taking over the role from Ben Affleck is blown out of proportion. Those that can only think of him via those silly vampire movies he did aren’t giving him a fair shake. Those abuzz about the possibility in light of his recent more interesting indie work think everything will work out.

But, please, consider this:

Everyone thought Michael Keaton would be a disaster. He was fantastic. People can complain about some of the merits of the two films he did and how they may have aged, but I’ve never heard an unkind word about his performance. Now, granted, if anyone ever did, they would suddenly sound like Charlie Brown’s parents, but I think the point that people liked it at the time and have fond memories of him as the Dark Knight even now.

Everyone was convinced that Christian Bale would be the perfect casting for the role. Ultimately, he probably ended up being the weakest part of the strongest Batman movies.

Everyone thought Ben Affleck would be terrible in the role, and well… He was fine in the role. The movies surrounding him were exercises in new and interesting ways to screw up a movie.

Do you want to know who—purely on spec—was the best casting of Batman, ever?

George Clooney in 1996.

The lesson? Nobody knows anything. Let them make their batmen. Everything (on that front) will be fine.

***

Whew, now that we have that out of the way, let’s get to the larger announcements in this entry.

Last week, I published “If You Enjoyed This Book,” the seventy-second flash fiction story I’ve written in the last year and a half. It will be the last story in that series.

The original notion was to produce these for two years, but that was also when I was trying to keep the entries under 500 words, a notion that also quickly evaporated. A byproduct of upping the word-count limit is that I now—even with omitting a few entries that I either wasn’t infatuated with or might work better in a different format—have enough stories to turn them into a book. The experiment is over.

I now begin the process of re-editing and organizing those stories into a volume, If Any Of These Story Goes Over 1000 Words, This Whole Book Will Explode. What happens to the blog entries in the meantime? All the links will remain live until the book goes to press, but the blog will be removed from the site’s masthead.

This may leave one wondering about what the site will look like in the future. You may have questions

1) Will I ever write another flash story? 

Maybe. Over the course of the last 18 months I had a lot of ideas and almost-ideas, here’s just a few:

• A story about a group of archeologists in the future uncovers the site of a laser tag arena, and can’t make heads or tails out of it.

• The story of the participant in the famed Shelley/Byron writing commune (the one that gave the world Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus). Something tells me I might actually write that one up one day.

• I tried several times to construct a story about the last person burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials. I wanted it to be funny, with the executioners past their peak enthusiasm for the mass murders, but it was always a story about being burned alive. C’est la vie.

Maybe other ideas will come to me, or maybe one of the above will light my imagination on fire again, and I’ll take to a pen to make things happen. If it does, it’s entirely possible that I will post it in this space, but I doubt I’ll ever get an itch to produce stories at this rate again.

Incidentally, one of the very first ideas I had when writing these stories dealt with a cabal of shadowy figures who make sure we forget that which brings us misery, but still feel miserable about it. I could never quite work the story out, until just a few weeks ago when I re-worked some elements and it became story #70, “The Misery Vampires.” Lesson? Hang in there, pals, some ideas just need time so you can work them out.

2) Will I still blog?

Simple answer: Yes.

3) What will I blog about?

I’m so glad you/I asked. I won’t do what I had done in the past and produce a new article/blog entry every week. That was just as grueling as the stories became. I’ll probably check back in here at least every other month to offer some thoughts. Like with the stories, if the mood strikes me, I may write other pieces as well.

But…

I will still be posting regularly to a new, third blog on the site. Last year, after taking a deep dive with old Siskel and Ebert at the Movies clips on Youtube, being absolutely wrecked by both Ebert’s memoir Life Itself and the 2014 documentary that shares its subject and title, and reading a few of Ebert’s review collections, I wanted to take a stab at movie criticism myself.

I decided I would write a review (of no fewer than 300 words) of every movie I saw from that day forward. I would have to have seen all of the movie to write the review. If I had already reviewed it for this experiment, then I could take a pass.

Given the amount of time I spend watching movies, that may end up being a tall order…

All right. I lied. I made that decision about a year ago, and have been writing the reviews ever since.

So, now I have reviews of 144 films, encompassing over 70,000 words of material. It’s like a bonus book that I’m not even going to charge you for. There are a few Batman movies, to be sure*. A lot of newer horror releases I watched for Beyond the Cabin in the Woods, like Us (2019), Midsommar (2019), and beyond all comprehension The Nun (2018). Lora and I watched every Marvel movie that didn’t feature Edward Norton**, and those reviews are ready for your perusal. Oh, heck, just take a look at the list as of today, July 22nd:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2. 2010: The Year We Made Contact (1984)

3. Alien (1979)

4. Aliens (1986)

5. Alien: Covenant (2017)

6. Always Be My Maybe (2019)

7. Ant-Man (2015)

8. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

9. Aquaman (2018)

10. The Avengers (2012)

11. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

12. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

13. Avengers: Endgame (2019)

14. Batman (1989)

15. Batman Returns (1992)

16. Batman & Robin (1997)

17. The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)

18. Beetlejuice (1988)

19. Black Panther (2018)

20. Blade Runner (1982)

21. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

22. Bond: Dr. No (1962)

23. Bond: A View To A Kill (1985)

24. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

25. Brightburn (2019)

26. Cabin in the Woods (2012)

27. The Cable Guy (1996)

28. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

29. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

30. Captain America Civil War (2016)

31. Captain Marvel (2019)

32. Carrie (1976)

33. Chaos on the Bridge (2014)

34. Child’s Play (2019)

35. Creed (2015)

36. Creed II (2018)

37. The Dark Knight (2008)

38. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

39. Dark Phoenix (2019)

40. Deadpool 2 (2018)

41. Death of Superman (2018)

42. Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme (2007)

43. Doctor Strange (2016)

44. Dracula (1931)

45. F For Fake (1973)

46. Forbidden Planet (1956)

47. The Founder (2016)

48. Fright Night (1985)

49. The Front Runner (2018)

50. Get Out (2017)

51. Ghostbusters (1984)

52. Ghostbusters (2016)

53. Ghostbusters II (1989)

54. Glass (2019)

55. Glory (1989)

56. The Godfather Part II (1974)

57. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

58. The Green Hornet (2011)

59. The Green Mile (1999)

60. Groundhog Day (1993)

61. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

62. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)

63. Halloween (1978)

64. Halloween (2018)

65. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

66. Highlander (1986)

67. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

68. Horror of Dracula (1958)

69. The Hunger Games (2012)

70. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

71. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

72. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

73. Inside Out (2015)

74. Iron Man (2008)

75. Iron Man 2 (2010)

76. Iron Man Three (2013)

77. It (1990)

78. Justice League (2017)

79. The Legend of Hell House (1973)

80. The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

81. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

82. Little Women (1994)

83. Ma (2019)

84. Mars Attacks (1996)

85. The Mask of Zorro (1998)

86. Matinee (1993)

87. Men in Black International (2019)

88. Midsommar (2019)

89. Multiplicity (1996)

90. Nosferatu (1922)

91. The Nun (2018)

92. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

93. Pet Sematary (2019)

94. The Predator (2018)

95. Primary Colors (1998)

96. Pulp Fiction (1994)

97. Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015)

98. Ralph Breaks The Internet (2018)

99. Ready Player One (2018)

100. Reign of the Supermen (2019)

101. Rocky (1976)

102. Rocky III (1982)

103. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

104. Room 237 (2012)

105. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

106. Shazam! (2019)

107. The Shining (1980)

108. The Shining (1997)

109. Sneakers (1992)

110. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

111. Spider-Man (2002)

112. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

113. Spider-Man 3 (2007)

114. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

115. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

116. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

117. Split (2016)

118. Spy (2015)

119. A Star Is Born (2018)

120. Stardust (2007)

121. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

122. Star Trek: Generations (1994)

123. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

124. Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

125. Star Trek (2009)

126. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

127. Star Trek Beyond (2016)

128. Step Brothers (2008)

129. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

130. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

131. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

132. The Terminator (1984)

133. Thor (2011)

134. Thor: The Dark World (2013)

135. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

136. Tig (2015)

137. Toy Story 4 (2019)

138. Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

139. Us (2019)

140. Venom (2018)

141. Vice (2018)

142. Watchmen (2009)

143. What We Left Behind: Looking Back On Deep Space Nine (2018)

144. X-Men (2000)

The reviews are probably rougher than what I would normally post on the site, but this keeps me in regular writing and updating without having to come up with ideas from nothing every week. I’m okay with that if you all are.

For now, though, feel free to look around the space, and check back in often. Things will be changing around here pretty starkly and I can’t wait to show you what I’ve been working on. The final season of The Fourth Wall is just the beginning…

*In fact, I became very aware that I watched Batman (1989) three times in the last twelve months, which seems right about on average for me, even if one of the times was on the the big screen for the first time.

**No particular reason. We just skipped it in our marathon. I may circle back around to it soon.