Spitball Army

watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 3.0 [DVD, library] A dry-as-a-bone fictional police procedural warning of the dispersion of untested medications. Most likely, this was shown in movie theaters before the feature and the cartoon. https://boxd.it/lkmiZ

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watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.3 [blu-ray, Netflix] This movie gets such a bad rap. Honestly, though, for what it is – a dystopian fantasy with YA leanings – it’s good enough. I haven’t read the books, so I neither have an opinion about their representation in the film, nor do I […]

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watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.3 [blu-ray, Netflix] An academic must come to terms with how her life’s work has prepared her for the inevitable changes that life (or the cosmos, or chance) is throwing at her. Huppert is fine, as expected, and there is plenty of food for thought, especially for […]

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watched Nov 01, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.9 [DVD, library] The film hardly breaks out of its stage-bound origins, and Hepburn chews the scenery with relish. She won the Best Actress Oscar for this, but it surely wouldn’t have been awarded to her today; thankfully, she matured from this showboating style to the more […]

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watched Nov 01, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.2 [DVD, library] A trifle. What interested me most, aside from the occasional statements spouted forth from the robot’s mouth (that seemed bound to the times in which the cartoon was created), were the striking similarities of the animation and voicing to the early Mickey Mouse shorts. […]

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watched Nov 01, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 9.1 [on-demand] You think you must know everything there is to know about a film that you’ve seen about a dozen times, and then a doc like this comes along and opens your eyes. Hitchcock was indeed a genius craftsman, down to every little detail (the […]

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watched Oct 28, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.4 [DVD, library] It’s beautiful visually, with lots (and I mean LOTS) of shots of hazy light filtered through mossy Southern trees [like in the works of Terrence Malick] and scenes in dark rooms that seem to be lit by only candlelight [as in Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY […]

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watched Oct 27, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.8 [streaming, Netflix] What a fascinating and ultimately tragic life Joan Didion has led! This doc connects her published works to the life events that inspired her to write them, for, as Didion state’s in the film’s generous interview segments, “You write what you have.” I have […]

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watched Oct 27, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.1 [DVD, Netflix] Here is a textbook example of a film likely having amazing potential on paper but not ultimately translating those qualities to the screen. The cast is A-ranked, the script is co-written by Joan Didion, the story offers moral dilemmas; but the acting is, for […]

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watched Oct 22, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.6 [DVD, Netflix] There was a point not too far into this film when the tone changed completely for me. Up until that point, the film was aloof and removed, but at the moment when Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot walk through the door of a bistro […]

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