Sunday, September 24, 2023

Turtles all the way down


TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

2023
Directed by Jeff Rowe (co-directed by Kyler Spears)
Written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, and Jeff Rowe

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

And they would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling mustache!


A HAUNTING IN VENICE

2023
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Michael Green (based on the novel Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie)

Spoilers: moderate, though if it's arguably on the higher side of moderate, I'm still not talking the details of ultimate solutions or anything

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all


HAMLET

1996
Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh (based on the play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare)

Spoilers: hey, remember that time Norway conquered Denmark?

Saturday, September 9, 2023

O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on


OTHELLO

1995
Written and directed by Oliver Parker (based on the play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare)

Spoilers: presumably inapplicable

Monday, September 4, 2023

Why must the show go on?


IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER
aka A Midwinter's Tale

1995
Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh

Spoilers: moderate unto high

Saturday, September 2, 2023

Middle-age wolf


WOLF

1994
Directed by Mike Nichols
Written by Jim Harrison, Wesley Strick, and Elaine May

Spoilers: moderate