As Christopher Nolan has increasingly focused on huge and bombastic IMAX spectacles, almost to the point that he’ll soon have nowhere bigger left to go, his very small and intimate 2002 thriller Insomnia often gets lost in the arc of the director’s career. Even though I doubt many fans would say they dislike it, when… Read More Late Nights Gettin’ to You? | Insomnia (2002)
Due to a scheduling conflict, the Film After 11 podcast will take a small vacation this week. In lieu of a completely new episode, we’ve dug through the archives to present a rerun of our very first attempt at this podcast thing, back when it was called Film at 11. That our review of Who… Read More Film After 11 Podcast Rerun | Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
I’ve liked, loved, disliked, or hated countless movies over the years. I’ve felt indifferent to many others. Never before have I had an experience like watching House (or Hausu if you prefer), the 1977 Japanese cult film about a group of annoying teenage girls who get trapped in a haunted or demon-infested mansion. I’m left… Read More It’s Unscientific, Unexplainable, Unnatural, Unreasonable | House (1977) Criterion Blu-ray
In a rare turn, I let my son Joseph pick the movie for this week’s episode of the Film After 11 podcast. He’d already watched a few minutes of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy at a friend’s house and wanted to see the rest. Who was I to argue with that choice? I’m still… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Jim Jarmusch might not be the first name one would consider to direct a hitman thriller. In most of his early work, such as Stranger Than Paradise or Mystery Train, the indie auteur established a very laconic style of character drama mostly lacking much in the way of plot or… well… drama. Today, we’d probably… Read More The Poetry of War | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) Criterion Blu-ray
This week’s double-length episode of the Film After 11 podcast is a doozy. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day in theaters, my son Thomas and I started off talking about its predecessor, 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Somewhere along the way, the conversation went off the rails and… well, let’s just say that, like any Marvel… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Hilariously, during an early scene in Brian De Palma’s 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury, a character actually says out loud, “No particular talent is needed to achieve.this.” Wow, could a better summation of the movie exist? That’s it right there. Review over. The end. No, I’ll go on a little if I must. The Fury… Read More Anybody Can Achieve Alpha | The Fury (1978) Blu-ray
The time has come for another new episode of the Film After 11 podcast. This week, I introduce my son Joseph to the classic Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day. The classic Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day. Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day. You see what I did there? Really subtle, huh? I’d make a joke about… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Groundhog Day (1993)
A title like Experiment in Terror seems primed for disappointment six decades and change later. Could any film from 1962 actually scare a jaded audience conditioned by modern horror movies to expect graphic violence and gore from something with a name like that? Perhaps not, even probably not, especially once you tell those same viewers… Read More I’m Fairly Well Conditioned to Shock | Experiment in Terror (1962) Blu-ray
We’re all shook up on the Film After 11 podcast this week as we tackle director Ron Underwood’s 1990 horror comedy Tremors. The movie wasn’t much of a box office hit during its theatrical run, but quickly grew into a cult classic on home video. My son Thomas has taken an interest in horror movies… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Tremors (1990)
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