Blue Moon (2025) (A): Richard Linklater's latest, a bipoic about Lorenz Hart on the night his former partner Hammerstein's latest musical Oklahoma opens. It's pretty much in "real time", and Ethan Hawke is phenomenal as Hart and deserves the Oscar. I loved it, but I love all of Linklater's work. It was better than some of the ones that got a Best Film nomination, but I think Hawke was the only major nomination for it.
Song Sung Blue 2025: (A-) Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman in a biopic about a Neil Diamond tribute band...Hudson earned the Oscar nom for sure, but I still am rooting for Rose Byrne. Like Blue Moon, the movie itself wasn't nominated for Best Film, but I liked it better than some that were.
Stars At Noon B+ (2022). Margaret Qualley in Nicaragua trying to make it back to the US anyway possible during the Covid lockdowns (instead of the Nicaraguan Civil War like the book)...it's weird, her Spanish is awful on purpose, and yet I liked it. Mainly because I like Margaret Qualley a lot...
Videodrome (1983) (B+). Slowly working my way through all of Cronenberg's films. It's weird body horror like all of his--a cable network owner sees a snuff film, becomes obsessed and loses his ability to know the difference between reality and hallucination...
The Roses (2025) (B+). Olivia Colman in this remake of Danny DeVito's 1989 The War of the Roses, which I watched for the first time recently. I think most people hated it, but I sorta liked it. Maybe low expectations helped me enjoy it more?
Point Break (1991) (C+)Keanu Reeves as a FBI agent going undercover as a surfer (plus Patrick Swayze! John C. McGinley!) It started out decent, but for whatever reason I sorta lost interest as the movie went on.
Special shout out to Vampire’s Kiss (1989 I think). NICOLAS CAGE WAS SO HORRIBLE IN THIS MOVIE. I can't really rate it, but it was so bad it was good. A NYC businessman thinks he was bitten by a vampire and proceeds to have a breakdown. It has to be seen to believed...
