I am very late to the Lee Chang-dong party, but I am grateful I finally got there. He is a very beautiful filmmaker.
Category: Film
Ranking the Ingmar Bergman Films
Films I Still Need to Watch: Face to Face, In the Presence of a Clown, Prison, Music in Darkness, It Rains on Our Love, Madame de Sade, This Can’t Happen Here, A Dream Play, The Image Makers, The Bacchae
Ingmar Bergman was one of the most consistently good directors in cinema history. For nearly sixty years, he cranked out good film after good film with a handful becoming iconic and very few being artistic failures. Diving into the Criterion box set was a long project but well worth it.
Ranking the Sex and the City Seasons and Films
Sex and the City is one of the most important television shows ever. I had a mildly unusual experience watching the show. I watched most of the show when I was 13-15 years old, and I did not watch it week to week but sporadically on-demand and out of order. So, before re-watching the show in 2023, I had seen just about every single episode but really had no concept of when things happened. Besides the end. Boy, did I ever remember the end of this fucking show. This column will rank all movies and seasons of the Sex and the City world.
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Ranking the Fantastic Four Films
The Fantastic Four is one of the most celebrated superhero comic book teams ever. Despite that though, their cinematic adventures have essentially been one disaster after another. But the need for content exists (both in terms of movie studios and the media click-based ecosystem) so these films are just going to keep coming out I suppose.
We luckily have a fantastic podcast series – Fantastic Fouray – from one-time site editor, Matt Waters, and sporadic site podcaster and contributor, Kevin Ford, breaking down the past, present, and future adventures of the Fantastic Four on the big screen.
Episode #1: The Fantastic Four (Unreleased) & Doomed! Documentary
Episode #2: Fantastic Four (2005)
Episode #3: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Episode #4: FANT4STIC
Episode #5: First Steps
(Also, read: 8 Takeaways from the Black Panther Episode of Fantastic Four)
And with that, it’s time for me to rank all the (futile) attempts to make a Fantastic Four film.
Ranking the Alfred Hitchcock Films
This list is very much incomplete. More will be added.
Fantastic Fouray – Episode 5: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Kevin Ford is a Fantastic Four superfan who had never seen any of the theatrically released F4 Movies… until now! Each week Matt Waters guides him through uncharted territory as they rate the movies and try to build an all-star cast.
And so we’ve come… to the eeeeend oooof the roooaaad….
Ahem. Sorry. Yes, the podcast is over already as we have completed the journey of Fantastic 4 films that currently exist. Do we finally have our first ‘Reed’? How uncomfortable can Matt make everyone with oversharing? How have Mel Gibson and Jon Voight come up??? Come find out!
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Kevin Ford is a Fantastic Four superfan who had never seen any of the theatrically released F4 Movies… until now! Each week Matt Waters guides him through uncharted territory as they rate the movies and try to build an all-star cast.
With ‘First Steps’ releasing this week we figured it only made sense to dive into one of the most infamous superhero films ever released. SEO, baby! From the director’s on-set behaviour to rushed reshoots to ill-advised sources of inspiration there’s surely nothing positive to say about this film…. right?!?
Continue reading Fantastic Fouray – Episode 4: FANT4STICFantastic Fouray – Episode 3: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Kevin Ford is a Fantastic Four superfan who had never seen any of the theatrically released F4 Movies… until now! Each week Matt Waters guides him through uncharted territory as they rate the movies and try to build an all-star cast.
What does the iconic Silver Surfer add to the mix with our returning cast? Does Mark Frost hate his wife? Why are we talking about Party Down and Transformers? Only one way to find out!
Continue reading Fantastic Fouray – Episode 3: Rise of the Silver SurferRanking the Brian De Palma Films
Still Need to Watch: The Wedding Party, Dionysus in ’69
Brian De Palma is one of the greatest directors ever. After years of dismissing him out of hand due to a bad early impression his films made on me, I have thankfully and finally re-visited him and seen the light. He has made some of the most sincerely fascinating and compelling films that I have ever seen.
Ranking the Melvin Van Peebles Films
Films I Still Need To See: Identity Crisis, Vrooom Vroom Vroooom, Le Conte du ventre plein, Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Melvin Van Peebles was a true American genius. His films are as compelling and as interesting as any American director ever.
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