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 …
Category: Films
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 …
Requiem for a Dream
This is the second of three Darren Aronofksy fims that I've watched while trying to clear out my Netflix DVD queue (the others are The Wrestler, which I watched a while back, and Black Swan, which I have yet to see), and I'm probably not the only person who first found out who he is …
Some More Quickie Movie Reviews
I've been trying to get some movies off my list while slammed with work lately, which hasn't been easy. Granted, if I could get off my ass and watch said movies while on the treadmill in the basement, I'd get this list knocked out more quickly. At any rate, much like my post back in …
There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
In 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Teconic Parkway in Upstate New York and ultimately collided head-on with an SUV. She, her daughter, her three nieces, and three people in the SUV were killed in the crash. The accident made headlines, especially after it was revealed that a postmortem toxicology test …
The Sweet Hereafter
Another movie off of my Netflix DVD queue and another movie I don't remember adding to it in the first place or why. Perhaps it was mentioned in an AV Club post or by somebody on YouTube. At any rate Amazon had The Sweet Hereafter available for streaming on Prime, so I sat down and …
Indian Summer
I have a soft spot in my heart for reunion flicks. This isn't recent, by the way. Even as far back as my early twenties, when Grosse Pointe Blank and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion came out, I loved any chance to watch a solid cast get together and pretend like they'd known one …
The Uncollecting 