Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Monday, December 28, 2020

Oops, Wonder Woman raped a dude


WONDER WOMAN 1984

2020
Directed by Patty Jenkins
Written by Geoff Johns, Dave Callaham, and Patty Jenkins

Spoiler alert: moderate

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Walt Disney, part XXXVI: Beginnings are contagious there


OLIVER & COMPANY

1988
Directed by George Scribner
Written by committees with their own subcommittees, apparently

Spoiler alert: moderate

Walt Disney, part XXXV: I hope you're proud of yourself—and those pictures you took


WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

1988
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman ("based on" the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf, but at least the book properly punctuates its title)

Spoiler alert: forget it, reader, it's Chinatown

Monday, December 21, 2020

What a disaster: Maybe they ought to leave it the way it is—a kind of shrine to all the bullshit in the world


THE TOWERING INFERNO

1974
Directed by John Guillermin and Irwin Allen
Written by Stirling Silliphant (based on the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Saturday, December 5, 2020

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Busby Berkeley: Manhattan babies don't sleep tight


GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935

1935
Directed by Busby Berkeley
Written by Robert Lord, Manuel Seff, and Peter Milne

Spoiler alert: moderate