Self-proclaimed last monster kid
read my blog: zacksfilmthoughts.blogspot.com/
#horror nerd
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
TÁR 2022
We're so used to awards bait movies being biopics. When a movie about a genius with a difficult personal life came along last year, it was perhaps forgivable to assume it was based in reality. No, Lydia Tár is not a real person. But I know so little about composers in the modern age of classical music that I would probably believe you if you had told me she was. Todd Fields' return to cinema, sixteen years after “Little Children,”…
-
Women Talking 2022
The #MeToo movement had a direct effect on the American film industry. It forced an entire system that just took sexual abuse as an unfortunate but tolerated, maybe even accepted, part of the woodwork for decades to confront the lives destroyed by that tolerance. To be honest, Hollywood is still trying to figure out how to grapple with its dirtiest open secret being exposed. (While the revealing of predators and pervs goes on to this day.) A direct attempt to…
Popular reviews
More-
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown 1992
As with any beloved institution, thoughts eventually turned towards sequelizing “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Of course, “It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown” came twenty-seven years after the original, after the “Peanuts” specials had cycled through every other calendar event imaginable.
A lot had change in those two and a half decades. The “Peanuts” supporting cast had evolved considerably. Iconic pop culture quasi-lesbian couple Marcy and Peppermint Patty had long been added to the crew. Snoopy had gained a sidekick in…
-
Bubsy: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1993
I can't believe I'm the first person in the history of Letterboxd to log this.
Anyway, it's bad.