Tuesday, December 29, 2020

A guy named Joe


SOUL

2020
Directed by Pete Docter
Written by Mike Jones, Kemp Powers, and Pete Docter

Spoiler alert: mild

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

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

It's an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world


TENET

2020
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Disney's Challengers, part VII: Your mother can't be with you anymore


THE LAND BEFORE TIME

1988
Directed by Don Bluth
Written by Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss, and Stu Krieger

Spoiler alert: high, but 'cmon

Thursday, December 10, 2020

What a disaster: Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people, that's all


EARTHQUAKE

1974
Directed by Mark Robson
Written by Mario Puzo and George Fox

Spoiler alert: moderate

Monday, December 7, 2020

Disney's Challengers, part VI: And the streets are paved with cheese


AN AMERICAN TAIL

1986
Directed by Don Bluth
Written by David Kirschner, Judy Freudberg, and Tony Geiss

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, December 5, 2020

What a disaster: Climb, baby, climb!


AIRPORT 1975

1974
Directed by Jack Smight
Written by Don Ingalls

Spoiler alert: moderate

Thursday, December 3, 2020

What a disaster: It is the view of Her Majesty's Government—the view, the policy, the determination—to resist extortion by terror


JUGGERNAUT

1974
Directed by Richard Lester
Written by Richard Alan Simmons, Alan Pater, and Richard Lester

Spoiler alert: moderate

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