2023 Ranked
Ranked: Christopher Nolan
Seen in Theaters
“You don't get to commit sin, and then ask all of us to feel sorry for you when there are consequences.”
Where science meets boundless ambition and endless determination (or dread), there lies the key to apocalypse. Given the tools of self-annihilation, humanity’s response is a chain reaction that, though given odds of “near zero”, will eventually amount to our own demise. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy); The “Father of the Atomic…
Seen in Theaters
Ranked: Wes Anderson
2023 Ranked
Wes Anderson‘s Asteroid City asks, “What is the meaning of life?” As it shows, maybe there is an answer, or maybe there is not. Either way, life continues along and humanity must find a way to cope with that inescapable reality. Asteroid City portrays the realization of a play set within the world of the film where the characters work their way through the play and, in black-and-white, show details of themselves…
Hooptober 10.0: 9/31
Hammer Ranked
The 1970s, Pt. II: 74/100
1974 Ranked
The last entry in Hammer’s Dracula series (sort of), The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires brings Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) to China. Christopher Lee is gone, replaced by John Forbes-Robertson, as Dracula with the Prince of Darkness taking over the body of a Taoist monk, who had traveled to Transylvania to seek Dracula’s help in restoring the power of The Seven Golden Vampires. Dracula does more…
Hooptober 10.0: 8/31
Hammer Ranked
The 1960s, Pt. II: 87/100
1965 Ranked
Wow. This slow-burn psychological thriller from director Seth Holt packs a punch. The Nanny stars Bette Davis as “Nanny”, the doting caretaker for a British family who helped raise Virginia Fane (Wendy Craig) and now helps her with her two children. However, as an early scene and absence foretells, only one of those children lived to grow old and now, the Fane family has considerable emotional and psychological…
Checking in at just under four hours, Once Upon a Time in America takes a long time to say absolutely nothing unique. A gangster film, the film does nothing for the gangster genre that could not be accomplished in a far shorter runtime because oh my God is this thing long. It just takes forever to end and even then, I still had no idea why it took so long. I love gangster films with The Godfather Parts I and…
