The Bear was once THE trendy show of the moment. It was perfectly fine for the most part. The hype was insane, but when the masses are starving they will think meat loaf is filet mignon. I am a snob. So be it.
Ranking the Boots Riley Film & Television Projects
Boots Riley is an unapologetically communist artist who is making art attacking United States capitalism and imperialism. That makes him worthy of admiration automatically. I will be tracking his films and television shows here.
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Ranking the Richard Linklater Films
ONGOING FLUID PROJECT (ie: to be updated continuously yet sporadically)
Unwatched: It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
Ranking The Mummy Films
With the inevitable Mummy legacy-sequel in the works, I felt it was best to establish what the franchise has produced thus far. You basically have a great first film, a sequel that is essentially a remake and better in many ways (but missing the feeling of “new”), and then a disastrous follow-up years later. Continue reading Ranking The Mummy Films
Ranking the Seasons of The Comeback
Lisa Kudrow defeated the Friends curse creatively very quickly after Friends ended. The show was initially skewered for the most part, but it developed a good reputation over time and eventually came back for two more seasons about a decade apart.
Ranking the Abbott Elementary Seasons
Abbott Elementary is a very critically successful show and is winning lots of awards. I was hesitant to check out the show due to the fact that a show about teaching in a United States city is something I have been doing for a long time, and I just assumed the show would annoy me more than entertain me.
Ranking the Werner Herzog Fiction Films
Herzog Articles
Ranking the Werner Herzog Documentaries
Ranking the Werner Herzog Fiction Films
Review of Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World
Ranking the Nosferatu Films
Still Need to Watch: Signs of Life, Scream of Stone, Invincible, The Wild Blue Yonder, Salt and Fire
Werner Herzog is one the greatest filmmakers ever. He has made some of the most astounding films of all time. I love (much of) his work dearly.
Ranking the Shrinking Seasons
We live in a really fucked up world. Paramount and Apple are spending a shit ton of money to put Harrison Ford and Kurt Russell in pure slop streaming television instead pooling resources together to make an amazing original adventure movie about old badasses going on an adventure. The world sucks.
Ranking the Werner Herzog Documentaries
Herzog Articles
Ranking the Werner Herzog Documentaries
Ranking the Werner Herzog Fiction Films
Review of Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World
Ranking the Nosferatu Films
Still Need to Watch: The Flying Doctors of East Africa, Handicapped Future, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, La Soufrière, Huie’s Sermon, God’s Angry Man, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Herdsmen of the Sun, Echoes from a Sombre Empire, Jag Mandir, Bells from the Deep, The Transformation of the World into Music, Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices, Wheel of Time, The White Diamond, Encounters at the End of the World, Into the Abyss, On Death Row, From One Second to the Next, Into the Inferno, Meeting Gorbachev, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Werner Herzog is one of the greatest filmmakers who has ever stepped behind the camera. I am merely at the beginning of my journey of exploring and studying his documentaries so far, but I am going to share my early findings on what I consider to be his best and most essential work.
Ranking the Bradley Cooper Films
In an age where every actor thinks they can be a director, Bradley Cooper is a rare one who has some talent for it. He has got things to say about being an artist and being alive. He has visual and formal ambition. He is – in fact – an artist. He’s not a great director, but he does not need to be. He instead is a director who makes films that are worth watching.
The Reel World 