A Grand Quiet

Thoughts on Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider’ (1999)

Starts slow, but the queasy build of greater and greater consequence while simultaneously those in power start losing faith in the worth of their cause is undeniable.

E Warren

June 24, 2019

Blank Check, Film

Al Pacino, Blank Check, Christopher Plummer, Cinema, Film, Films, Michael Mann, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Philip Baker Hall, Review, Russell Crowe, The Insider

Netflix’s ‘Love, Death & Robots: Alternate Histories’ Review

Okay, this one is an extended six riffs on the same joke none of which are funny. Like, oh my god it’s so fucking bad.

E Warren

June 23, 2019

Film, Review, Television

Alfredo Torres, Alternate Histories, Animated, Animation, David Fincher, Film, Films, Love Death & Robots, Netflix, Philip Gelatt, Short, Streaming, Tim Miller, Victor Maldonado

Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 4’: Review

Both this and Toy Story 3 surprised me I guess, I don’t really remember when I watched the first two — definitely I was young and they were broadcast with ad breaks — but they felt epic, big adventure movies in their own right, despite being so small looking back. They left their mark, but never sunk…

E Warren

June 23, 2019

Film, Review

Animated, Animation, Annie Potts, Christina Hendricks, Cinema, Disney, Film, Films, Four Stars, Jordan Peele, Josh Cooley, Keanu Reeves, Keegan-Michael Key, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Pixar, Review, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Tony Hale, Toy Story 4

Netflix’s ‘Love, Death & Robots: Ice Age’ Review

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Topher Grace are between them charming enough to make me almost forget that this is a live action adaptation of a Treehouse of Horror segment. Yeah, I guess when series creator Tim Miller gets to make his own episode and can call in his famous friends the format gets to be…

E Warren

June 22, 2019

Film, Review, Television

David Fincher, Film, Films, Ice Age, Love Death & Robots, Movie, Movies, Netflix, Philip Gelatt, Short, Streaming, Tim Miller

Netflix’s ‘Love, Death & Robots: Blindspot’ Review

After one episode that just about pushed enough past the realm of ‘okay’ that I actually struggled to write about it, Love, Death & Robots returns back to its core content. Execrable garbage.

E Warren

June 21, 2019

Film, Review, Television

Animated, Animation, Blindspot, David Fincher, Film, Films, Love Death & Robots, Movie, Movies, Netflix, One Star, Short, Streaming, Tim Miller, Vitaliy Shushko

Netflix’s ‘Love Death & Robots: Zima Blue’ Review

I was watching and then reviewing all of these a while ago but had to stop here because it broke me. It’s the first one of these shorts to actually be good, and I didn’t quite know how to deal with that.

E Warren

June 20, 2019

Film, Review, Television

Animated, Animation, David Fincher, Emma Thornett, Film, Films, Kevin Michael Richardson, Love Death & Robots, Movie, Movies, Netflix, Robert Valley, Short, Streaming, Tim Miller, Zima Blue

Netflix’s ‘Aggretsuko’ Season 2 Review

I got drunk and watched most of this over the course of a single evening, then the rest in bed hungover the next morning. It’ll explain why I spent a lot of it in tears moaning about how hard life is for poor Retsuko who never did nothing wrong.

E Warren

June 19, 2019

Review, Television

Aggretsuko, Anime, Netflix, Opinion, Rarecho, Review, Season 2, Streaming, Television, TV

Netflix’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese’ Review

I guess the experience of watching this film might be just about as overwhelming as watching one of the concerts. Yet at least the audience there would have had the benefit of context to experience it within.

E Warren

June 18, 2019

Film, Review