Scott's Movie Comments
Best MoviesMovie IndexFilm Festival JournalsIrish MoviesAnnual Oscar® PicksCommentary ArchiveMy InboxMovie Web LinksSend Your FeedbackTwitterFacebookRSSPrivacy Policy

Commentary Flashback 15 December 2011 You could spend a whole day trying to add up all the cowboys, henchmen, military men, policemen and husbands he played in the course of 57 years

Review Flashback 1985 Rauni Mollberg’s Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)

Review Flashback 1996 Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty

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


ScottLarsonBooks.com

For information
on my latest novel
Last of the Tuath Dé
and my five other books, click
here to visit my book blog


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

Feature Film Review I got swept up in The Idea of You, says Solène Marchand, as she attempts to end her relationship with boy band singer Hayes Campbell

Review Encore Now playing in the US: Nicolas Jack Davies’s Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird


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


Latest Commentary There is nothing more thrilling than the call to adventure – whether that involves a voyage around the world or the crafting of powerful art

Review Encore Now playing in the US: Jacquelyn Frohlich’s Wayward


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


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

Feature Film Review High-living Jimmy Erskine has been The Critic at The Daily Chronicle for decades, but the passing of his late boss may bring an end to all that


Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies


Feature Film Review Eileen Furlong may think her husband Bill spends too much time at night worrying about other people’s problems and Small Things Like These, but to Bill these are very big things

Review Encore Now playing in the US: Hannah Peterson’s The Graduates


Web Site Statistics for November


Film Festival Journal My two-day visit to the four-day 25th Kerry International Film Festival

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

Short Film Review Suspiciously behaving young men pay too much time to Where the Old Man Lives for old Michael’s liking

Documentary Film Review From 1968 to 1995 ordinary women from all over Ireland took part in an annual televised event called Housewife of the Year

Review Encore Now playing and streaming in the US: Barnaby Thompson’s Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story

Review Encore 50th anniversary re-release in the UK: Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein

Feature Film Review Wanting it to be named after something for which Northern Ireland is well known, Irish-language rappers Naoise, Liam Óg and JJ christen their hip-hop group Kneecap

Feature Film Review Given their respective tendencies toward both Pride & Prejudice regarding one other, will Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy ever be able to acknowledge their mutual attraction?

Feature Film Review As Vincent lies dying in the apartment he shared with his stepdaughter, His Three Daughters must overcome years of estrangement as they go through their uncomfortable joint vigil

Review Encore Now playing in the US: Chaysen Beacham’s What We Find on the Road

Review Encore Batman 85th birthday reissue in the UK: Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins

Review Encore Batman 85th birthday reissue in the UK: Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight

Review Encore Batman 85th birthday reissue in the UK: Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises

Review Encore One-week reissue in the UK: Jon Watts’s Spider-Man: No Way Home

Review Encore Batman 85th birthday reissue in the UK: Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin

Review Encore 75th anniversary reissue in the UK: Carol Reed’s The Third Man

Review Encore One-week reissue in the UK: Jon Watts’s Spider-Man: Homecoming

Feature Film Review When Barry Allen discovers that his super-speed as The Flash enables him to travel backward in time, he is tempted to erase a life-defining tragedy

Feature Film Review Intrigued by the Pretty Woman who propositions him on the street, corporate vulture Edward Lewis hires prostitute Vivian Ward to accompany him to some important social/business events


Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,052