Hi Maggie. No cable TV here either. Used a YouTube introductory offer to watch (twice), and then cancelled the surprisingly expensive service. Who can afford all of these services, that added up come to significantly more than my circa aughts Platinum Cable? Currently, I subscribe to Criterion, Max, and Apple+. A friend has me on his Netflix account. The offerings are so confusing, I feel like I need to revisit why I have what. Loved reading your response to films as compared to mine. Share your love of The Holdovers, which like Sideways, is a film to watch over and over again. The cast was superb. Everything Paul Giamatti does shines. My favorite films this year were Past Lives, Anatomy of a Fall, Poor Things (adored it, despite great trepidation about Yorgos Lanthimos), and The Holdovers. Agree completely with your review of Maestro. I expected to like American Fiction, but I didn't, and I adored both Insecure and Stranger than Fiction (many rewatches of StF). Oppenheimer and Barbie both seem the sort of film that more viewers and The Academy would like more than me. Killers of the Flower Moon was too much Scorsese and DiCaprio, and not enough Gladstone. It would be fascinating to see that film made by Sterlin Harjo or Taika Watiti. I wanted to love KotFM, but I appreciated it without loving it. Gladstone is better in other films where she is more central. The only film I still haven't seen is The Zone of Interest. My emotional bandwidth wasn't, and isn't, wide enough for that one. I will see it. Love your skincare and makeup reviews, as well as your film reviews. I always appreciate contrasting your intelligent take on things with my own in all categories in which you weigh in.
Hi Maggie. No cable TV here either. Used a YouTube introductory offer to watch (twice), and then cancelled the surprisingly expensive service. Who can afford all of these services, that added up come to significantly more than my circa aughts Platinum Cable? Currently, I subscribe to Criterion, Max, and Apple+. A friend has me on his Netflix account. The offerings are so confusing, I feel like I need to revisit why I have what. Loved reading your response to films as compared to mine. Share your love of The Holdovers, which like Sideways, is a film to watch over and over again. The cast was superb. Everything Paul Giamatti does shines. My favorite films this year were Past Lives, Anatomy of a Fall, Poor Things (adored it, despite great trepidation about Yorgos Lanthimos), and The Holdovers. Agree completely with your review of Maestro. I expected to like American Fiction, but I didn't, and I adored both Insecure and Stranger than Fiction (many rewatches of StF). Oppenheimer and Barbie both seem the sort of film that more viewers and The Academy would like more than me. Killers of the Flower Moon was too much Scorsese and DiCaprio, and not enough Gladstone. It would be fascinating to see that film made by Sterlin Harjo or Taika Watiti. I wanted to love KotFM, but I appreciated it without loving it. Gladstone is better in other films where she is more central. The only film I still haven't seen is The Zone of Interest. My emotional bandwidth wasn't, and isn't, wide enough for that one. I will see it. Love your skincare and makeup reviews, as well as your film reviews. I always appreciate contrasting your intelligent take on things with my own in all categories in which you weigh in.