THIS IS A TRUE STORY. It is known to the Police Department of one of our largest cities as the most difficult homicide case in its experience, principally because of the diabolical cleverness, intelligence and cunning of a completely unknown killer....The record is set down here factually---as it happened. Only the names have been changed---to …
Category: Films
Shoot to Kill
One of the advantages of the Netflix DVD queue was that I didn't have to hunt high and low for a number of movies that are getting increasingly hard to find on streaming platforms. One such movie is 1988's Shoot to Kill, a movie I saw around the time I came out (I want to …
Manhunter
There exists a Michael Mann film that clocks in under two hours. I am sure there are others, but I had been putting off watching 1986's Manhunter because I didn't know if I wanted to make the commitment to a Michael Mann film. I'd also seen it before, having watched it back in high school, …
I, Tonya
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Bud Greenspan's 1994 Olympics documentary, noting that this was one of "my" Olympics, so to speak--one of the games that took place when I really paying attention to everything surrounding them instead of just watching them when they came on. The marquee event, at least as far as network …
Contagion
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 …
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 …
The Uncollecting 