Movie News – Week of 9/30

I've been bandying this idea around a bit recently, but I've never gotten around to actually doing it. This isn't meant as a comprehensive list of movie news happening right now, just what interests me. The bits of news and promo material that caught my eye over the last few days. I'll try to keep…

Pale Rider

#33 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. There are two stories that happen to take pace in the same geological location in this film, and they undercut each other. It's a rather frustrating experience. In a hidden corner of California, a small mining community is desperately clinging to their foothold of ground, convinced that…

Writing Update – 9/29/19

Finished the transcription of the 3rd draft for Colonial Nightmare. I could have finished it Thursday, but I grew weary of it. And then I proceeded to do nothing with it Friday or Saturday. Watching the A's toss away the final, meaningless, game of the regular season allowed me the chance to finish, though. Now,…

Mission: Impossible III

For most of this movie’s runtime, it’s quite an enjoyable high tech spy thriller, but I absolutely hate it’s last twenty minutes. I’ve only seen this twice: once upon its initial theatrical run and just recently on Amazon Prime. I remember feeling largely the same reaction then as I did this time, and the epicenter…

Mary Poppins Returns

This was…frustrating. Emily Blunt is quite wonderful as the titular character, but there's just so much that doesn't really fit together around it, dragging the movie down until the end. I wanted to like this so much more than I did. There are two main sources of my frustration with this film. The first are…