When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States in March 2019 and we all went into a lockdown, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion jumped to a top spot over various streaming platforms. I didn't choose to watch it then--I opted for Netflix's Tiger King (which, coincidentally, dropped its second season yesterday)--but I made a point …
Category: Films
The Week in Uncollecting, 11/1/21-11/14/21
This is really a multi-week update because I've been "compiling" reviews in my notebook for a few weeks now. Plus, my most recent "weeks in ..." have been horror-themed and war-themed multi-review posts instead of one of my usual ones, so this is making up for that. Despite this piling up, there's not too much …
The Spooks in Uncollecting, 10/31/21
Again, it's been a while since I have posted anything, but seeing as it's Halloween, I thought I'd write about the spooky/horror stuff that I've been clearing out of my lists lately. Now, I'm not a huge horror fan. I dabble in some movies and books throughout the year and like to read at least …
Films in Brief, 9/1/21-9/21/21
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films Ever Made Part 2, Horror and Sci-Fi and Part 3, Comedy and Camp: I enjoyed the first parts of this and was eagerly waiting to watch the other two. Part 2 is the gem of all three because of its focus on genres that for years were on the …
Tokyo Olympiad
So about a month ago, I was prepping my most recent episode of "Fallen Walls Open Curtains" where I covered events from three Olympic Games during the Cold War, and I wondered if my cable service carried the Olympic channel and whether or not there's anything worth watching on it. I discovered ... Yes, we …
While We’re Young
I have to admit that while I had saved Noah Baumbach's 2014 "people confronting middle age" comedy to my Kanopy watchlist a while ago, I kept skipping it in favor of other movies (mostly crappy horror movies and rockumentaries). I'd tried watching his film Kicking and Screaming sometime back in the Nineties, but never got …
It Comes At Night
I guess since it's Halloween, I should look at a horror movie. And since we're in the middle of a pandemic, I guess I should look at a pandemic horror movie? It Comes At Night is an A24 release and that alone is what drew me to the film because everything I've seen from the …
Cloak & Dagger (1984)
I had to put 1984 in parentheses because there is a recent Freeform show beased on the 1980s Marvel Comics series and I didn't want to get anyone confused. Not like anyone's reading this anyway. So this is one in a genre of kid adventure movies from the 1980s that puts someone around the age …
Super 8
Oh man, where do I begin with this? While I don't think I'm a "fan" of J.J. Abrams, I can say that between Alias, Lost (though Damon Lindelof was behind that more than J.J.), and both Stars (Trek and Wars), I've seen enough of his work to level some sort of educated opinion. Super 8 …
Two Movies About Ghosts
Don't ask me why I decided to pin a bunch of ghost stories to my Kanopy watch list, but it seems like I've got horror on my mind. Maybe it's because of the way the world is going to complete shit this year and I need to see something that feeds my current pain or …
The Uncollecting 