Long Day’s Journey Into Night

This is a horror movie. Long Day’s Journey Into Night is based on the Eugene O’Neill play, and it very much feels like a filmed play, with everything taking place in one location, the family home, over the course of a day. The film begins cheerily enough, with a mother, father and their two sons…

Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali is the story of a brother and sister growing up in rural Bengal in the 1950s. This is a lovely film, really evocative of place, with the warmth of family and childhood at its heart. I love how this film depicts childhood. It’s very hard to depict the innocence of childhood while showing…

Tornado

This is just a bad day for everyone across the board. Tornado is set almost entirely over one day in which things go wrong very fast, then just keep getting worse. At one point a character slips, goes down and breaks their arm, and instead of it seeming contrived, you just think, “Yup. It’s that…

Ready for GFF25!

Tonight GFF25 starts! Are you ready? I know I’ve been quiet all year, but that’s what happens when you are broke and disabled as fuck. Now I am up and raring to go for GFF25. Gonna stick with last year’s spoon management strategy, that worked well. Buzzed for the Opening Gala film!