Sunday, June 28, 2020

Man, everybody really does want to be a cat


A WHISKER AWAY
Nakitai Watashi na Neko wa Koburo

2020
Directed by Junichi Sato and Tomotaka Shibayama
Written by Mari Okada

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, June 27, 2020

I'm fairly pretty, which is a nuisance



IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER

1955
Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green

Spoiler alert: moderate

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

I dinna like it


BRIGADOON

1954
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Written by Alan Jay Lerner (based on the play by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe)

Spoiler alert: moderate verging on high, I guess

Friday, June 19, 2020

G-d Week: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.


THE PRODIGAL

1955
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Written by Maurice Zinn, Joseph Breen Jr., and Samuel James Larsen

Spoiler alert: inapplicable

Friday, June 12, 2020

Let the revels begin, let the fire be started—we're dancing for the restless and the broken-hearted



STREETS OF FIRE

1984
Directed by Walter Hill
Written by Walter Hill and Larry Gross

Spoiler alert: moderate

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

G-d Week: And so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.



ESTHER AND THE KING

1960
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Written by Raoul Walsh, Michael Elkins, and Ennio Di Concini

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

I suppose I could be persuaded to believe


THE VAST OF NIGHT

2020
Directed by Andrew Patterson
Written by "James Montague" (that is, Andrew Patterson) and Craig W. Sanger

Spoiler alert: mild