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Short Film Review Doing a favor for his brother Jeremy, in need of a place to stay, Brian is mentally unprepared for the emotional consequences of inviting his sibling to Enter the Room

Review Encore 4K restoration now playing in the UK: Billy Wilder’s The Apartment

Commentary Flashback 3 Feburary 2012 Dear people who are in charge of the Academy Award telecast: please don’t force me to start watching football instead of movies

Review Flashback 1985 Richard Donner’s The Goonies


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Review Flashback 1996 David Koepp’s The Trigger Effect

Feature Film Review Even people close to young Bob Dylan find him, to quote a memorable line from one of his songs, A Complete Unknown

Oscar Predictions Quick, before I have too much time to overthink it, here are my hurriedly put together and not very well thought out annual predictions of the 2025 Academy Award winners (for movies released in 2024)


My Personal Ranking of
Films Released in the Year 2024
(that I have seen and reviewed so far)


Feature Film Review You’re my Babygirl, says Samuel, a new intern at the robotics company Tensile, to Romy Mathis, its CEO

Feature Film Review No one mourns the Wicked, sings Glinda the Good as her thoughts turn back years earlier when she first met Elphaba Thropp


My Inbox:
The Fortnight Extended: the 2024 selection on international tour!


Feature Film Review After the Pope’s death, it falls to Thomas Lawrence, as Dean of the College of Cardinals, to oversee the Conclave that will elect the papal successor

Feature Film Review Drug cartel boss Juan ‘Manitas’ Del Monte enlists the aid of attorney Rita Mora Castro in his plan to become a woman called Emilia Pérez


Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies


Feature Film Review Because of the Russian she learned from her grandmother, Anora ‘Ani’ Mikheeva is introduced by her boss at an upscale New York strip club to Ivan ‘Vanya’ Zakharov, a wealthy oligarch’s son

Latest Commentary Also for the record, what she said about Ben Affleck in bed was uncalled for—and that dig at Joker 2 was pretty mean too


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Feature Film Review Hitman Donovan Harlow’s act of mercy toward witness Ashe Winters has consequences that put their and others’ survival In the Hands of Fate

Feature Film Review When Joan and her friends Linda and Susan sip Joan’s late inventor husband Arthur’s Whisky, they find themselves miraculously transported back to their youth

Feature Film Review In exchange for withholding a slanderous article, Spy magazine is allowed to send journalists Mike Connor and Liz Embrie to cover the High Society wedding of Tracy Lord and George Kittredge in Newport, Rhode Island

Feature Film Review Multiple meetings at random funerals lead to Harold and Maude forming a fast friendship and sharing profound lessons about life and death

Review Encore Now streaming in the US: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s Clara Sola

Short Film Review Don’t tell anyone I was here, a mysterious man cautions Aziel Baxter, there’s too many Spiders in the Walls

Short Film Review When Seán tells his parents back home, I Found a Place in Dublin, it is nothing like they (or he) expected


Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,062