Thoughts on Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: "Yeoh bumps into a woman she has never met before, and what does she do? Pulls out the sword and starts showing it off." (Link to complete article in comments below) #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Thoughts on King Hu's A Touch of Zen-- arguably the greatest, definitely one of the most bonkers, martial arts epic ever made (Link to the complete article found in comments below) #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Paalam Rob Reiner (1947-2025) who did one masterpiece and a number of good works #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Fuck Pulp Fiction when I remember Peter Greene (1965-2025) I remember his tremendous performance in this film #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Thoughts on King Hu's A Touch of Zen criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-to...

"I wonder if 47 ran as a Republican because Democrats left a bad taste in his mouth."

Suddenly the term 'BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL' takes on a whole new meaning

"My preciousss!"

Anything but woke

Sleepy Don

David Mamet on Tom Stoppard: "Spielberg asked Tom to write for Jaws and Tom said he was writing a play for the BBC. 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?' "'No' Tom said. 'BBC Radio.'"

Kash Patel used government funds to fly to his girlfriend on a jet He-- Kash has a girlfriend?

Just in time for Christmas-- Saw Tim Burton's Batman Returns on the big screen again after three decades and far as I'm concerned: the best onscreen incarnation of the character ever Link to article in comments #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

"You're so pretty I could eat you up!"

Savor the flavor

Better dead than Ted

"Quiet piggy!" says the noisy bore

What could possibly go wrong?!

Thoughts on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025):  If you don't know anything about the film know this: he spent eighteen years sketching, researching, talking to make this, his Great White Whale film adaptation. Worth a look? Well let me tell you.

When you hear news of his passing (JUAN PONCE ENRILE 1924-2025) and the Church sends in their team to make sure

Wooden stake, garlic wreaths, three-day waiting period -- we have protocols to follow, dammit!

Thoughts on Jerrold Tarog's biopic Quezon (showing in select American theaters): Start right off with a caveat: not a historian, merely a student of film. I can talk of visual style, but of historical facts about the period and details of the man himself? (Link to article in comments)

When the president breaks wind, someone suffers the consequences

Saw Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day again and -- Godfather? What Godfather?

Belatedly Adam Greenberg (1939-2025)-- The Big Red One, The Terminator, Near Dark. He did some good work: the gritty cinematography of Cameron's breakout feature; the poetry of Bigelow's vampire flick, particularly the glow of a fiery desert sunrise; the no-budget epic range of Fuller's masterpiece

Paalam Diane Ladd (1935-2025). Made her mark playing supporting roles -- but what a mark! The crimson demonface in Wild at Heart, the golden-glamour host in Inland Empire, the earthy no-bullshit waitress in baby pink in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Can't forget her if I tried

Dick Cheney (1941-2025). Once I'd have called him the face of absolute evil-- but boy nowadays he's relatively kindergarten

Paalam Peter Watkins (1935-2025)-- pioneer of the mockumentary and brilliant relentlessly political, his Punishment Park and The War Game rank as some of the greatest of horrors #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

"I’d like to become the first insect politician..." "I don’t know what you’re trying to say!" "I’m saying I’m an insect who dreamt he was a man...but now the dream is over and the insect is awake." "No no Seth" "I’m saying: I’ll hurt you if you stay."

Paalam Prunella Scales (1932 - 2025)-- you were a delight and now you're gone

(Thoughts on M Night Shyamalan's Signs): "Shyamalan's latest shows no sign whatsoever of him apologizing for his career to date. His first movie was a hit his second an interesting failure; in Signs he wants to make beievers out of all of us. (Link to article below) #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie

DIANE KEATON (1946-2025). Paalam Kay Adams, Luna Schlosser, Sonja, Annie Hall, Theresa Dunn, Louise Bryant, Faith Dunlap, Charlie Ross. She was smart, sexy, not a little dangerous. She made you fall for her and she broke your heart, the way she does all of ours with her passing. #movies #Filmsky

Lav Diaz's Magellan American premiere in the New York Film Festival Oct 9 (8.45 PM), Oct 10 (5.45 PM), Oct 13 (12.15 PM), with a Q & A with Diaz on Oct. 10 Link to the screenings and my article in the comments below #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Saying this out loud: have not always been a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. His work strikes me as often stylish but half-baked, with bravura passages of filmmaking (Link to complete article in the comments) #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

How to pronounce 'acetaminophen:' 'minophen' as in 'minnow fin' 'aceta' as in 'Ah see ta Epstein files have not been released!'

Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025) -- not perhaps the greatest film she was involved in (it's great, but the competition!) just the one I've written about. Link to my article in the comments #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

What do we call Duterte charged with Crimes Against Humanity? A good start

RIP Robert Redford Thought his best film hands down is All the President's Men. Thought his best directorial effort was Quiz Show. Thought the Sundance Film Festival was the best thing he ever did for American Cinema. #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Maybe he'll change his mind. O wait --

Mike de Leon (1947-2025) Day 5: Hindi Nahahati Ang Langit (The Heavens Indivisible, 1985) criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2014/11/hind... Available in Blu-ray box set at laboutique.carlottafilms.com/products/cof... #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

My thoughts on Lav Diaz's Magellan (2025) criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2025/09/mage... The film premiered in Cannes, is showing in Philippine theaters, and will screen in both Toronto and the New York Film Festival. #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Mike de Leon (1947-2025) Day 4: Batch 81 (1982) criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2014/09/batc... Available in Blu-ray box set at laboutique.carlottafilms.com/products/cof... (French subtitles only, alas)

Mike de Leon (1947-2025) Day 3: Itim (Rites of May, 1975) criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2022/11/itim... Available in Blu-ray box set at laboutique.carlottafilms.com/products/cof... (French subtitles only, alas) #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Mike de Leon (1947 - 2025) Day 2: criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/03/mike... Can be seen on the Regal YouTube site m.youtube.com/watch?v=U5fT... #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Thoughts on a 70 mm screening of John Ford's The Searchers criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... The experience was as sprawling and expansive as the VistaVision landscape. #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Mike de Leon is gone. And yes in my book he's pantheon #movies #Filmsky #HATM #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Sammo Hung's The Bodyguard (2016) is easily his most handsomely photographed film, with a final shot that's as sneakily moving as his performance #movies #Filmsky #HATM44r4r4 #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Thoughts on Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Cloud criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2025/08/clou... I thought Weapons was hot shit; along comes Kurosawa Kiyoshi saying "hold my beer." #movies #Filmsky #HATM44r4r4 #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse

Rest in peace Terence Stamp. Still from one of his finest fullest performances, and arguably Steven Soderbergh's masterpiece #movies #Filmsky #HATM44r4r4 #OldMovie #BFilmsky #oncinema #thisiscinema #arthouse