I know it gets over-shadowed by other events, but Pippet the dog barely gets a mention in the list of the shark’s victims.  Sad.

The scene that killed me this time is when Dreyfus asks Shaw if he’s ever had one do this before, and Shaw says, “no”.  From then on, Shaw plays the fear beautifully, it’s really amazing.  Watch him as he revs the boat engine, which makes no sense for an experienced seaman whose boat is also his…

Bette Davis is a well-to-do heiress, Judith, who loves her horses, her independence, and hanging out with her best gal pal, Ann, and their perpetually at-least tipsy buddy, Ronald Reagan. But one day Judith’s chronic headaches accelerate to a bout of double vision. Her faithful family physician realizes this may be due to something ominous, and enlists the help of George Brent’s Dr. Frederick Steele, eminent local neurosurgeon.

Steele, unfortunately, is about to decamp for a life of research in…

In my memory, this movie has more hijinks and outright jokes, but even though it’s not exactly what I , it’s just got such good vibes and such winning characters that by the time they were singing My God, I was completely taken in. What’s more impressive is that it worked just as well on the middle kid, who has none of my built-in nostalgia for this movie and only a minimal awareness of who Whoopi Goldberg is. 

Whoopi exudes…

Now I just want to see Coogler make a straight up musical—Sinners’ most transcendent and evocative sequences are two creatively staged musical numbers, one a blues-to-hip hop fantasy, and the other the ghoulish lovechild of Riverdance and Thriller. Coogler’s visualization of the way music threads through the history of the African diaspora thru the slave trade, the reconstruction south, and 20th century America is incredible—the music bobs and weaves with the camera through the juke t, as echoes of the…