As another year draws to a close, I spent an evening enjoying one of my favorite year-end traditions: looking back at all the films I'd seen in the last twelve months (thanks, Letterboxd!) and deciding which of the more than 220 (roughly 227 this year, a massive increase from 2022's flimsy 167 ...
Archives for December 2023
Review: THE COLOR PURPLE
Since Alice Walker's The Color Purple was first published in 1982, it has been adapted into a film (in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg), a stage musical (in 2005, which ran for three years and toured the country), another musical (a 2015 revival of the original, which ran about half as long but ...
Review: WONKA
The first thing to know about Wonka, the latest film to revisit the Roald Dahl-created candyman and his antics, is that this version is the brainchild of co-writer and director Paul King, who also gifted us the wholesome perfection that is Paddington. The second thing to know is that as a young ...
Holiday Gift Guide 2023
My family and I have reached that point where gift giving becomes more of a chore than a joy. All the kids are growing up (or grown), many of us have our own traditions at home before gathering for the holiday, and frankly, we are blessed enough in our day-to-day lives to have everything we need or ...
November: What I Watched
Last month, I looked at my Letterboxd and realized that I had three months to make up a lot of movie watching for the year. I've been making a concerted effort to catch up on everything I missed earlier in the year, and in November, I managed to watch two dozen films, many of which will likely be on ...