While I have been a fan of James Bond since I was ten years old, I have to admit that there are a number of films I haven't seen (a number of them starring Roger Moore) and the last one I saw in a theater was Tomorrow Never Dies. A lot of that has to do …
Category: Films
The Quiet Earth
I've known about this movie and have been wanting to see it since it came out 35 years ago, even though it's a very adult science fiction piece and definitely would not have been appropriate for me at eight years old. This is what happens, I guess, when you watch At The Movies every week …
Solaris (2002)
So they send George Clooney to a spaceship that is orbiting a random planet named Solaris where he is supposed to retrieve members of the troubled mission team. While there, he starts seeing his dead wife but it turns out she's an alien mimicking his dead wife and he kind of starts to lose it …
Goodfellas
So like a number of movies on my Netflix DVD queue, Goodfellas was added because I'd wanted to watch it at some point a few years ago and couldn't find it on streaming. Then, I forgot about it and moved on until very recently when Netflix put it back on streaming. So I get to …
Blade Runner
How hard is this one to write? I mean, it's not like I'm completely unfamiliar with Blade Runner, but I have to admit that up until last week, I'd only ever watched the film once, when I was in high school and the "Director's Cut" version had come out on VHS. I remember liking it at the time, although …
Moon
Okay, so it was just by total coincidence that I watched this film and the PBS doc Chasing the Moon right around the same time. But hey, maybe this is "moon weekend" at The Uncollecting or something? Anyway. So whereas the documentary was all about the space program, Moon is a 2009 science fiction drama …
Chasing the Moon
I guess that I have to start by wondering if making a documentary about the Apollo 11 moon landing was ever really that necessary. I mean, considering that the show I just watched was broadcast in July 2019, a full fifty years since the mission, it was inevitable. But as someone who has watched a …
Black Swan
This is the third Darren Aronofsky film that was in my Netflix queue and therefore the third that I wound up watching and reviewing over the course of this project. Thankfully, I was able to find it on streaming via HBO, so I was able to kill two birds with one stone? Okay, so that's …
2:37
So this is an Australian film that came out around 2007 that I put on my Netflix queue who knows how many years ago and for reasons that I can't remember. It's very possible that I read about it on a movie blog or social media feed and was told that it was an intense, …
The Last Broadcast
So I had heard it said on the Internet--and you obviously have to consider the veracity of this statement because we are talking about the Internet--that the 1999 found footage classic The Blair Witch Project is not as innovative as once thought and was toootalllly ripping off a 1998 movie called The Last Broadcast. A …
The Uncollecting 