Letterboxd — Your life in film

The movie is called Boot "Polish" but the film is made in India?

"Boot Polish" is considered a classic in Bengali and Bollywood cinema. It was produced by the nation's superstar Raj Kapoor (who's films I've recently been viewing for the first time) and won best picture at the Filmfare Festival, whatever that is. Despite being a cultural icon, this film isn't seen as much anywhere else, as I noted from the few people who have it logged on Letterboxd.…

One of the most disappointing films of 2019 for me, and for different reasons.

So I saw two zombie comedies this year, not really expecting either to be great, but the one that I thought would be better than the 10 years too late sequel "Zombieland 2" was actually the worse one! (Zombieland 2 was surprisingly enjoyable) Now when I first heard that Jim Jarmusch's next film would be a zombie movie starring Adam Driver and Bill Murray, I wasn't…

I talked about this film in my Salo review, but I figured I would go a little more in depth.

To be honest the film seemed promising from the start. It was shot competently and was setting up a mysterious set of arrays. I wasn't strongly invested but was mildly curious and was willing to see where it was going to go. Unfortunately, as the film goes on it just falls apart more and more as it seems clear that…

Sleuth but gayer.

So I made the mistake of watching this version of "Sleuth" before the original, because I didn't know it was a remake and thought it was the original. I think what confused me was that I knew Michael Caine was in it so I thought "Well, Michael Caine is in it so this must be the right one." Not realizing that he appears in both films playing the opposite characters; the one thing I found kind of…

What a BORING experience. A completely insignificant, un-special shallow pool of a flick!

Who would actually prefer to watch this over the Disney classic? There already is a live action Beauty and the Beast; it came out about 70 years ago, was directed by Jean Cocteau and it was great!

Okay, I'll be honest I'm not as angry as I'm letting on to be in the top few paragraphs; mostly because this film didn't get an emotion out of me…

So it’s kind of like “Free Willy” just if Shyamalan directed it.

Wrapping up my Shyamalan filmography and covering another “Trek through the Unknown” film with “Lady in the Water”. Killing two birds with one stone. Or killing one scrunt with three tree monkeys. I actually skipped this film when I first watched Shyamalan’s work, because I heard it was bad, so didn’t want to waste my time. But I’m not about that anymore. The whole point of this challenge…

Does anyone remember this?

So I watched another movie with my family, because I'm a family man! Who spends time with his family! So my Dad rented this movie. Why? Honestly I think it was just because of the cast list. None of his favorites, but just because there was a crap ton of famous people in here I think it caught his eye. He's easily amused like that. But I figured eh, why not. It looks harmless enough. Besides…

A little late, and kind of cheating with this one, as it's a move that I had a little bit of interest in seeing, but it's my list and, what like, two people are actually consistently following this, so I can bend the rules. Hell I'm not even consistently following this. I have a life, I can't watch a bad movie every week.

I digress, in this age of overabundant comic book flicks I, like many others, have grown immensely…

I say this as a huge admirer of Charles Bronson, but I never cared for the original "Death Wish"

With the release of this remake coming out (no I have not seen it, and I don't plan on viewing it soon) I've seen a lot of reviewers going back and trashing this piece, which me more comfortable in giving my own thoughts. Well, I won't completely trash it. I don't think "Death Wish" is terrible or that it's incompetently bad,…

Guaranteed, this review is packed with girl power! Ahaha, ooh... I still haven't seen Phantom Thread yet.

As for the third entry in my "Trek for the Unknown" series, I gave a chance to Spice World, the Spice girls movie, a film I put off for a while knowing that if anyone saw me watching this, I would be heavily laughed at. Out of the films I've watched thus far, this is the one that, as an avid Heavy Metal…