Showing posts with label 8/10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 8/10. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Laika Week, part zero: Love and death


CORPSE BRIDE

2005
Directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton
Written by John August, Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler, and Tim Burton

Spoilers: highish

Saturday, July 25, 2026

It's never who you want to be monogamous who's monogamous


THE INVITE

2026
Directed by Olivia Wilde
Written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones (based on the movie Sentimental by Cesc Gay)

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Sherwood Week: He's not the Marian kind


ROBIN AND MARIAN

1976
Directed by Richard Lester
Written by James Goldman

Spoilers: moderate shifting pretty immediately into severe, and I guess you could feel deceived that I said it was ever "moderate"

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Punch-drunk love


MORTAL KOMBAT II

2026
Directed by Simon McQuoid
Written by Jeremy Slater (actually based, remarkably enough, more than anything else on the video game Mortal Kombat II by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Please don't take my sunshine away


PROJECT HAIL MARY

2026
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Written by Drew Goddard (based on the novel by Andy Weir)

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, February 9, 2026

She was shakin'


THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE

2025
Directed by Mona Fastvold
Written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold

Spoilers: inapplicable

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Friday, November 21, 2025

mother!


DIE MY LOVE

2025
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Written by Enda Walsh, Alice Birch, and Lynne Ramsay (based on the novel Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz) 

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Killing strangers so we don't kill the ones that we love


BALLERINA

2025
Directed by Len Wiseman and/or Chad Stahelski
Written by Shay Hatten

Spoilers: high (for nerds, anyway; for non-nerds who can already guess what could go wrong with an action movie smooshed into a preexisting intellectual property, moderate)

Monday, April 14, 2025

When will you make an end?


THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

1965
Directed by Carol Reed
Written by Philip Dunne (based on the novel by Irving Stone)

Spoilers: Michelangelo did, in fact, finish the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

I know you've seen enough of the Falls for one trip, but don't cross us off your list


NIAGARA

1953
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Richard Breen

Spoilers: moderate (maybe a teensy bit high, but one generally knows how these things go, right?)