Posts Tagged ‘Jonathan Pryce’
Film Review – The Thursday Murder Club
I’ll be honest with you: the retirement home featured in The Thursday Murder Club (2025) looks like a lot of fun. The estate reminds me of the one in Downton Abbey, surrounded by an expansive lawn and finely trimmed trees. It has an old-world aura that is warm…
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Film Review – All the Old Knives
There’s an old saying: Never work with your loved ones. Mixing business with pleasure rarely work out – emotions get mixed with duty to the point that distrust and resentment start leaking through the cracks. Now imagine that dynamic steeped in the realm of the…
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Episode 67 – Godzilla vs. Kong
For this episode, we review the blockbuster crossover, Godzilla vs. Kong, and we list a few movie match-ups we’d like to see in the future. For our streaming homework, we also review Terry Gilliam‘s long-awaited passion project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Download episode…
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Film Review – The Wife
I’m going to meander a bit before I get to my review of Björn Runge’s new film The Wife. The source material for this film is a novel by Meg Wolitzer, who is one of my favorite contemporary writers. I don’t usually care for literary…
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Episode 210 – DVD Rundown 12-4-2012
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for December 4th, 2012. In this episode they discuss The Dark Knight Rises, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and Brazil.
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Film Review – Breaking Glass
When I was a small-town punk rocker back in the early ’80’, I spent most of my time getting harassed by some dude in a cowboy hat or listening to music. (Which is probably true for most teens, minus the redneck bullying.) One of the…
READ MORESome Thoughts on ‘Brazil’ (1985)
Something’s not right in Brazil (1985). While the quirky characters that fill Terry Gilliam’s oddly backwards future-scape cling to an appearance of efficient normality, these same people repeatedly reveal that they can’t be put in a numbered box and ticked off.
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