Music 🎸
Brian Wilson 1942-2025
We just weren't made for his times.
Remembrances ⭐️
Remembrances ⭐️
Rerun: Walter Matthau's Barbaric Yawp
It's been a busy week with all sorts of irons in the fire, movie- and life-related, so I thought I'd dust off one of the very first Watch List postings from 2021 because it was fun to write and because this guy is fun to read about.
Remembrances ⭐️
Michael Hurley 1941-2025
The original freak-folkie and one of this country's great outsider artists has passed on to the jamboree in the sky. You don't know what we've lost.
Good Movies 📽
What to Watch: Animal Shelters
Bless the beasts and the ... never mind, just bless the beasts. Plus: movies to remember Val Kilmer by.
Good Movies 📽
"The Girl with the Needle" & "Grand Theft Hamlet" (& Gene Hackman) 🔒
Two reviews of new movies, one Oscar-nominated and the other fun. Plus, my WaPo Gene Hackman appreciation.
Remembrances ⭐️
Reviews: "Wolf Man," "Back in Action" + Requiem for a Seer
This week's WaPo pieces: Two reviews and a David Lynch appreciation.
Remembrances ⭐️
David Lynch: A Memory
How the director schooled a young critic in the proper approach to art and mystery
Good Movies 📽
Five Movies to Keep You from Having a Nervous Breakdown This Weekend/ R.I.P. Teri Garr
Self-care, people! Also: Farewell to Teri Garr, and a political endorsement from the Boston Society of Film Critics
One Good Film
One Good Film: "Blaze" (R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson)
Ethan Hawke's biopic of Blaze Foley is also a great actor-singer's onscreen farewell.
Good Movies 📽
Ten Movies to Stream/Maggie Smith R.I.P.
New on VOD, including "Grave of the Fireflies," "The Disappearance of Shere Hite," "Between the Temples," and more. PLUS: Farewell, Maggie Smith
Remembrances ⭐️
James Earl Jones 1931-2024
A giant of stage and screen, he was much more than the voice of Darth Vader and CNN.
Good Movies 📽
What to Watch: "Lime Kiln Club Field Day" outtakes
On Bert Williams, early Black film, and the road not taken.