The Last Hero in China: My Favorite Yuen Woo-ping Films
I look back fondly at my Letterboxd review of the late Chor Yuen’s The Lizard (1972), which kicked off my Yuen Woo-ping action retrospective in January. Specifically, I have to […]
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The Class of 2021: My Favorite Movies
A short story about breath: Having become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 a month ago, I’ve begun taking regular trips to the movie theater again. Few topics are as perennially popular […]
“We’ll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet” — My 10 Favorite Capra Movies
There’s no denying that the year 2020 was a fallow period for my blogging efforts. A set of new routines brought on by both personal and global events made it […]
My Most Anticipated 2021 Movies
A lot can change in a year, I believe it’s safe to say. At this point last December, I was thinking about the end of a decade of movies, in […]
The Class of 2020: My Favorite Movies
The Distracted Boyfriend meme is nowhere more applicable than in the life of a cinephile. Whatever movie I plan on seeing next, the thought will always occur to me before […]
An Enterprise of Great Pitch and Moment: My 10 Favorite Hamlet Movies
Probably the main reason that Hamlet has been such a popular subject for cinema from its very beginning — besides representing a grasp for artistic legitimacy in those early days, and […]
My Favorite Movies of the 2010s
This past decade was an important transitional time for me. It began with me entering my final semester of college, and it ended with me finally moving out of my […]
My Most Anticipated 2020 Movies
Scanning the horizon for next year’s crop of movies yields the usual mix of excitement and despair. Some things haven’t changed much; franchise sequels continue to suck most of the […]
My 25 Favorite Montages & Cross-cutting Sequences
What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]
The Class of 2019: My Favorite Movies
“How does he do it?” asked no one. According to my painstaking records, I’ve maintained roughly the same pace in watching movies that were new to me during the last […]
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