This is the fifth bonus film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of ...

Johan von Sydow takes a stylistic kitchen-sink approach to his documentary on the singer Tiny Tim. He blends old performance footage with animated recreations, interviews with relevant people in ...

He blends old performance footage with animated recreations, interviews with relevant people in Tiny's life and voice-over ...

As I sat down to write this, David Fear at Rolling Stone dropped his list of the 20 Best Movies of 2024, and His Three Daughters was #1. That's not happening with me, but I admit the film has grown on ...

Over the past few weeks, I have taken part in a, what do you call them, not memes I don't think ... on Bluesky: "Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 ...

Even though film cannot convey two of food's most fundamental properties, taste and smell, there's still something powerfully appetizing about food in the movies. Food is the great unifier, one of the ...

On this date in 1995, we saw the first of two Bruce Springsteen shows on his Ghost of Tom Joad tour. It was only the fourth show of the tour. He opened with this song on both nights, seen here on The ...

I've started posting a video of a song a day on Bluesky, and today I am up to 1959. Rarely has a popular song been so perfectly troublesome to a certain group of people, because "Shout" has ...

The first entry in the Denis Villeneuve's Dune series won six Oscars, and I'm not here to say they were undeserved: Best Sound, Visual Effects, Production Design, Original Score, Film Editing, and ...

Not a bad year for music.