Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Seems like I should be getting somewhere, somehow I'm neither here nor there


BULLET TRAIN

2022
Directed by David Leitch
Written by Zak Olkewicz (based on the novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka)

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, December 16, 2022

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety


CLEOPATRA

1963
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Written by Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (based on The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, plus Plutarch and that whole gang)

Spoilers: N/A

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Kick me in the jimmy


THE STORY OF QIU JU

1992
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Written by Liu Heng (based on the novella "The Wan Family's Lawsuit" by Chen Yuabin)

Spoilers: mild

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Steven Spielberg, part XXXIX: Hey, I know a song, it's called "While You Were Singing, I Got Stabbed In the Head By a Puerto Rican"


WEST SIDE STORY

2021
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Tony Kushner (based on the play by Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim)

Spoilers: severe