Film
Film reviews, movie essays, and other posts focused on cinema.
- Letterboxd Film Diary, October 2022 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 10/2/2022 Witchboard, 1986 (Rating: 2/5) First viewing and I greatly appreciated the ’80s-ness of it all, but looking back on it I’m internally debating whether there was a sense of self-awareness to […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, August 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 8/2/2020 John Mulaney: New in Town, 2012 8/2/2020 John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, 2018 8/3/2020 Rumpelstiltskin, 1995 (Rating: 0.5) 8/4/2020 Page One: Inside the New York Times, 2011 Yesterday a […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, July 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 7/1/2020 Fubar, 2002 (Rating: 2/5) 7/2/2020 The House That Jack Built, 2018 (Rating: 2/5) There’s more to The House That Jack Built than I’m able to give it credit for. For right […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, June 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 6/2/2020 Joshy, 2016 (Rating: 2/5) 6/14/2020 The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, 2019 6/15/2020 13th, 2016 6/17/2020 HyperNormalisation, 2016 6/18/2020 LA 92, 2017 6/21/2020 The VelociPastor, 2018 (Rating: 1.5/5) 6/22/2020 Jack of all Trades, […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, May 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 5/2/2020 Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, 2012 5/3/2020 Martyrs, 2008 (Rating: 2.5/5) 5/6/2020 Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill, 2020 5/8/2020 Fittest in Dubai, 2019 5/9/2020 All Hallows’ Eve, 2013 (Rating: […]
- The Dead Center ()
I’ve been reading a lot about the value of the critic of late, attempting to discern for myself what to do with competing personal desires: One which recognizes the benefit and internal value of slowing down to consider what the intention of a work might have been and what my own interpretation of that is, […]
- The Century of the Self ()
While I recently wrapped up watching the entire series, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watch the first episode of Adam Curtis’ 2002 BBC mini-series, The Century of Self. It’s easily the most stimulating of the documentary’s four episodes, skillfully framing much of the blueprint for what has become our consumer state in […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, April 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 4/9/2020 Would You Rather, 2012 (Rating: 1.5/5) 4/9/2020 Emelie, 2015 (Rating: 1/5) 4/9/2020 The Ritual, 2017 (Rating: 2/5) 4/9/2020 Gerald’s Game, 2017 (Rating: 2/5) 4/10/2020 Jen Kirkman: I’m Gonna Die Alone (And […]
- Dancer in the Dark ()
Dancer in the Dark (2000), directed by Lars von Trier Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Winner Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Winner: Björk Roger Ebert for RogerEbert.com: “Dancer in the Dark is a brave throwback to the fundamentals of the cinema—to heroines and villains, noble sacrifices and dastardly betrayals. The relatively crude visual look underlines […]
- Stories We Tell ()
Stories We Tell (2012), directed by Sarah Polley Noted as one of “The 21 Century’s 100 greatest films” by the BBC (2016). Stephanie Zacharek for the Village Voice: “This wondrous, absorbing little picture covers a great deal of winding meta-territory, reflecting on the ways in which a single family’s story can be told—or maybe, more […]
- Jules et Jim & I Am a Ghost ()
Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut Carrie Rickey for The Dissolve: “The eponymous characters, Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre), bohemians with money in Belle Époque Paris, are besotted with a work of classical statuary, a woman with an enigmatic smile. When the beguiling free spirit Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), the living embodiment […]
- An Explainer & Elena ()
An idea has been eating at me the last month or so about how my viewing habits seem to default to low hanging fruit when I’m not purposeful in deciding what I’m going to watch. This thought has come and gone over the years, but here we are—in quarantine—with a tremendous amount of time on […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, March 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 3/2/2020 Toni Erdmann, 2016 (Rating: 2.5/5) 3/2/2020 George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy, 1997 3/2/2020 Pete Davidson: Alive from New York, 2020 3/4/2020 David Lynch: The Art Life, 2016 3/5/2020 Cold War, […]
- “Fights Will Go On As Long As They Have To” ()
What was saved as a draft several Sundays ago is posted today… “I’m finding myself writing a story that already exists.” Isn’t that a bitch, looking back on that note one day after writing it and realizing just how true it might be? I’m closing in on the finish of Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth and […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, February 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 2/2/2020 Three Colors: White, 1994 (Rating: 3/5) 2/2/2020 Three Colors: Red, 1994 (Rating: 3.5/5) 2/2/2020 Inherent Vice, 2014 (Rating: 2/5) 2/3/2020 Being There, 1979 (Rating: 3/5) 2/3/2020 Old Joy, 2006 (Rating: 2.5/5) […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, January 2020 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 1/1/2020 Suspiria, 2018 (Rating: 2.5/5) 1/3/2020 Best in Show, 2000 (Rating: 2.5/5) 1/4/2020 Why Don’t You Play in Hell?, 2013 (Rating: 3.5/5) 1/5/2020 The Florida Project, 2017 (Rating: 2.5/5) 1/8/2020 The Art […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, December 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 12/1/2019 Eighth Grade, 2018 (Rating: 3/5) 12/1/2019 The Virgin Suicides, 1999 (Rating: 2/5) 12/1/2019 We Need to Talk About Kevin, 2011 (Rating: 3/5) 12/1/2019 We Are Still Here, 2015 (Rating: 1.5/5) 12/2/2019 […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, November 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 11/2/2019 No Country for Old Men, 2007 (Rating: 4/5) 11/2/2019 Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 (Rating: 3.5/5) 11/3/2019 Django Unchained, 2012 (Rating: 3.5/5) 11/3/2019 Drive, 2011 (Rating: 2.5/5) 11/3/2019 Anchorman: The Legend […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, October 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 10/1/2019 The Gingerdead Man, 2005 (Rating: 0.5/5) In service of landing the Gingerdead Man anything remotely resembling a proud legacy, the staff in charge of its production would have been well served […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, September 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 9/1/2019 Einstuerzende Neubauten 1/2 Mensch (1/2 Man), 1986 9/1/2019 Possibly in Michigan, 1983 9/2/2019 Savageland, 2017 (Rating: 2.5/5) Rarely have I seen a found footage horror film as thematically interesting as Savageland. […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, August 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 8/1/2019 Angst, 1983 (Rating: 3.5/5) In clumsier hands this could have been a forgettable Austrian lead-up to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, but there is so much here that separates it […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, July 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 7/3/2019 Paths of Glory, 1957 (Rating: 4/5) My mind is swirling with another puzzle piece now added to the cinematic wartime mosaic building in my mind. Paths of Glory is the Kubrickian […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, June 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 6/2/2019 The Little Hours, 2017 (Rating: 2/5) 6/5/2019 Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 (Rating: 2/5) Going in blind, any expectations I had centered around the Bad Times at the El […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, May 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 5/2/2019 Man with a Movie Camera, 1929 (Rating: 4.5/5) 5/3/2019 Napoleon Dynamite, 2004 (Rating: 2.5/5) 5/4/2019 What We Do in the Shadows, 2014 (Rating: 3/5) 5/5/2019 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1988 (Rating: 2.5/5) […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, April 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 4/1/2019 Night of the Demons, 1988 (Rating: 2/5) Even among heavy T&A, hard rockin’, hard partying horror flicks, Night of the Demons is a weird one. There are so many one-liners, then […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, March 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 3/2/2019 Freddy Got Fingered, 2001 (Rating: 2.5/5) 3/2/2019 Zombie Lake, 1981 (Rating: 0.5/5) Zombie Lake is about as haphazard an approach to portraying zombies on screen as I’ve ever seen, with the […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, February 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 2/1/2019 A Scanner Darkly, 2006 (Rating: 2.5/5) From a visual point of view, I really enjoy A Scanner Darkly for about thirty minutes, but the aesthetic loses its charm slowly as the […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, January 2019 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 1/1/2019 Airplane!, 1980 (Rating: 2.5/5) 1/1/2019 A Tale of Two Sisters, 2003 (Rating: 1.5/5) 1/1/2019 28 Days Later, 2002 (Rating: 2.5/5) 1/1/2019 28 Weeks Later, 2007 (Rating: 2/5) My gut reaction when […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, December 2018 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 12/2/2018 Triangle, 2009 (Rating: 2/5) 12/2/2018 Zombieland, 2009 (Rating: 2.5/5) 12/2/2018 Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 (Rating: 3.5/5) 12/2/2018 Hardcore Henry, 2015 (Rating: 3/5) This is my third or fourth viewing this […]
- Letterboxd Film Diary, November 2018 ()
Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. For more reviews, follow Razzle Dazzle Cedar Rapids on Letterboxd. 11/1/2018 Hot Shots!, 1991 (Rating: 1/5) 11/1/2018 Stripes, 1981 (Rating: 2/5) 11/1/2018 Hot Fuzz, 2007 (Rating: 3/5) Even without considering all the easter eggs that serious Hot Fuzz fans seem to obsess […]