For this last Film at 11 podcast episode of 2025, I have once again made the ill-advised mistake of inviting both my sons to watch a movie with me, together, at the same time. That never works out well, and certainly didn’t here. Somehow, all the squabbling and fighting that ensued (mostly, but not entirely… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 43 | National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
Just one year prior to his big critical and commercial breakthrough with The Crying Game, writer/director Neil Jordan released a tiny Irish drama that slipped through the cracks, was noticed by almost no one, and has since been nearly forgotten to time. Despite all that failure, I managed to catch a screening of The Miracle… Read More You’ve Got to Be Kind to Your Characters | The Miracle (1991)
Nostalgia reboots of old movies are so common right now (Fatal Attraction coming imminently to Paramount+!), one can hardly blame CBS for trying to revive James Cameron’s 1994 blockbuster True Lies as a weekly spy/action series. That it would be terrible should also be no surprise, given the network’s history. The trailers certainly looked awful.… Read More Well, This Was a Disaster | True Lies (2023) CBS Series Premiere
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