Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2025

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Middle-aged by dawn


OLD

2021
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (based on the comic book Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters)

Spoilers: moderate

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

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

They want us up in their gray space pushing their WTF buttons


THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS

2021
Directed by Lana Wachowski
Written by David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon, and Lana Wachowski

Spoilers: severe

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Spins a multiverse, any size, doesn't matter if he dies, there's always some other Spider-Man


SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

2021
Directed by Jon Watts
Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers

Spoilers: severe

True medium


NIGHTMARE ALLEY

2021
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Written by Kim Morgan and Guillermo del Toro (based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham)

Spoilers: mild

Monday, December 13, 2021

Back in the habit


BENEDETTA

2021
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by David Birke, Pascal Bonitzer, and Paul Verhoeven (based on the book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun In Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown)

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Sunday, December 5, 2021

City of spies


CLIFF WALKERS

2021
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Written by Quan Yongxian and Zhang Yimou

Spoilers: mild

Father, son, and House of Gucci


HOUSE OF GUCCI

2021
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna (based on the book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden)

Spoilers: N/A

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Deviant art


ETERNALS

2021
Directed by Chloé Zhao
Written by Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, Kaz Firp, and Chloe Zhao

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose


THE FRENCH DISPATCH OF THE LIBERTY, KANSAS EVENING SUN

2021
Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, Jason Schwartzman, and Wes Anderson

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, October 29, 2021

Desert planet


DUNE: PART ONE

2021
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Written by Jon Spaihts, Eric Roth, and Denis Villeneuve

Spoiler alert: good golly, it's Dune

Monday, October 18, 2021

The customary protests


THE LAST DUEL

2021
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Nicole Holofcener (based on the book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial By Combat In Medieval France by Eric Jager)

Spoiler alert: pretty much inapplicable, but I don't say who dies!

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

The legendary weapons of China


SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

2021
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Written by Dave Callaham, Andrew Lanham, and Destin Daniel Cretton

Spoiler alert: moderate

Thursday, September 16, 2021

She's a real basket case


MALIGNANT

2021
Directed by James Wan
Written by Ingrid Bisu, Akela Cooper, and James Wan

Spoiler alert: the determination of a spoiler warning is a subjective exercise, of course, but I will assert "moderate"

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

If she doesn't scare you, that sounds about right


CRUELLA

2021
Directed by Craig Gillepsie
Written by Dana Fox, Tony McNamara, Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis

Spoiler alert: the puppies were all products of incest, apparently (moderate)