I have a deep well of fondness for this movie. It just makes my heart happy and a lot of times when I watch it, it feels like it was...

If I have a sweet spot in film genre, it's melancholy existential comedy with a sweet romantic twist. This one ticks all those boxes. I...

I've been hoping and wishing that this movie would come up. It's the Hot Fuzz of Wes Anderson's work for me, which is to say, I didn't...

When I told Ben that we were watching Lethal Weapon for this week's movie, he was shocked I own it. "Of course!" I said. "It's a great,...

This movie blew my mind when I saw it (a couple of years after it came out), as I think it did for most people. A friend brought it to a...

I'm wary of parasocial relationships, especially with actors [knowing look], but goshdarnit I just love a movie that seems like a bunch...

This movie rocks. I wish movies like this were still made. Low gore, high excitement, low kill count, high stakes. Jan de Bont, we salute...

This is my favorite Studio Ghibli film. But you know what's funny? I don't think I could tell you what it's about. I mean, I can tell you...

Ooowheeee I was nervous about this one. I loved it so very much when we saw it in the theater. I knew it was mostly the actors (okay,...

This was the last film we saw in theaters before the pandemic began in earnest. I had never seen a Fast and/or Furious movie but I knew...

If there's a silly pop culture hill I'll die on, it's that 2022 was the best single year for horror films in the history of cinema. And a...

It feels like this film is thread woven in the tapestry of my life. But I actually came to it a little "late"! I remember the "cool"...

This was my least favorite of the Cornetto Trilogy for the longest time. Then, around the time I started doing theater professionally...

I vividly remember seeing this for the first time after renting it because so many of my new film loving friends in college loved it. I...

I had a lot of feelings going into this one. First and foremost, excitement because this has always been one of my favorite "play in the...

So I saw this pretty soon after it came out, loved it, bought it on DVD, and never watched it again until this viewing. I know I was...

This movie was verboten in my childhood (with good reason) but by the time I surreptitiously watched it on cable, or bought it...

In the many ways I've let my work on this blog pile up, this is the one I maybe regret the most? Simply because, in very typical Shannon...

This movie has everything. Inaccurate depictions (I guess? Who's to say? Not me.) of rock climbing! Billionaires being billionaires!...

I must start by confessing that when I saw this in theaters with friends, they came out cheering, and I came out deeply distressed. The...