I didn’t do a lot of reviews this past year. Fifty three in all. It was an election year and I write mostly about politics, and I have a backlog going into 2025. Also, if I think something is rubbish, I’m very unlikely to review it. And there was a fair old bit of rubbish that came out last year.
Written and directed by Garth Jennings Produced by Chris Meledandri & Janet Healy The animation was created entirely in France by Illumination Mac Guff.[ Starring Matthew McConaughey Reese Witherspoon Seth MacFarlane Scarlett Johansson John C. Reilly Taron Egerton Tori Kelly Cinematography Guylo Homsy Edited by Gregory Perler Music by Joby Talbot Production companies Universal Pictures …
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Directed by Tim Burton Screenplay by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar Story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Seth Grahame-Smith Based on Characters by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson Produced by Marc Toberoff, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Tommy Harper, Tim Burton Starring Michael Keaton Winona Ryder Catherine O’Hara Justin Theroux Monica Bellucci Jenna Ortega Willem Dafoe …
Wolfs Written and Directed by Jon Watts Produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Dianne McGunigle, Jon Watts Starring George Clooney Brad Pitt Amy Ryan Austin Abrams Poorna Jagannathan Cinematography Larkin Seiple Edited by Andrew Weisblum Music by Theodore Shapiro Production companies Apple Studios, Plan B Entertainment, Smokehouse Pictures Distributed …
Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant Directed by Ariane Louis-Seize Written by Ariane Louis-Seize, Christine Doyon Produced by Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Line Sander Egede Starring Sara Montpetit Félix-Antoine Bénard Steve Laplante Sophie Cadieux Noémie O’Farrell Marie Brassard Patrick Hivon Marc Beaupré Cinematography Shawn Pavlin Edited by Stéphane Lafleur Music by Pierre-Philippe Côté Production company Art et Essai …
A Year in review: a review of 2023 2023 was another great year for television. Among other great shows we watched (and I reviewed) this year were Gen V (outrageous spin-off of The Boys), One Piece (excellent live-action version of a rather dumb anime), a new BBC remake of War of the Worlds, an engaging …
Directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim Written by Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler, Paul Sado Produced by Adam Sandler, Mireille Soria Starring Adam Sandler Bill Burr Cecily Strong Jason Alexander Sadie Sandler Sunny Sandler Rob Schneider Jo Koy Allison Strong Jackie Sandler Heidi Gardner Robert Smigel Nick Swardson Edited by Patrick Voetberg, Joseph Titone …
Directed by Nick Bruno & Troy Quane Screenplay by Robert L. Baird & Lloyd Taylor Story by Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor, Pamela Ribon, Marc Haimes, Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Keith Bunin Based on Nimona by ND Stevenson Produced by Karen Ryan, Julie Zackary, Roy Lee Starring Chloë Grace Moretz as Nimona, a shapeshifter who …
Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Peter Tam Lee Starring Michelle Yeoh Stephanie Hsu Ke Huy Quan Jenny Slate Harry Shum Jr. James Hong Jamie Lee Curtis Cinematography Larkin Seiple Edited by Paul …
White Noise Directed by Noah Baumbach Screenplay by Noah Baumbach Based on White Noise by Don DeLillo Produced by Noah Baumbach, David Heyman & Uri Singer Characters Adam Driver as Prof. Jack Gladney Greta Gerwig as Babette Gladney Don Cheadle as Prof. Murray Siskind Raffey Cassidy as Denise Sam Nivola as Heinrich May Nivola as …