By Juan-Carlos Selznick Small Things Like These– In this 2024 film adapted from the novel by Claire Keegan, Cillian Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant in a small Irish town. It’s Christmas 1985, and […]
By Bob Grimm Much of the gang from Ben Affleck’s 2016 film about a high-functioning autistic ninja accountant returns for a very different take on the crazy premise that delivered a dark, decent vehicle for […]
By Bob Grimm The third season of The White Lotus concluded on Sunday, April 6, and all eight episodes are available on HBO’s Max for your visual binging pleasure. As with past seasons, it does not disappoint. […]
By Bob Grimm Director Alex Garland follows up last year’s chilling Civil War with another violent, visceral experience in Warfare, his account of a real-life event that happened in 2006 during the Iraq War. Garland and co-director Ray […]
By Bob Grimm Oh, lordy, The Rule of Jenny Pen is a nasty one—a dark, dreary, filthy, get-to-the-core-of-real-life terror nasty one. This is a movie that declares, unapologetically, that getting old and helpless sucks major ass. This is […]
By Bob Grimm There’s a new Looney Tunes movie playing in theaters. There’s a good chance you didn’t know that. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is the first fully animated, original […]
By Juan-Carlos Selznick In a way, the “movie year” here at the Stream & Dream Lounge sometimes extends into March of the following year and on up through the night of the Oscars. And here […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson “I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.” – ‘Double Indemnity’ Robert Strom, Chico’s ‘Detective of Film Noir,’ is an author, playwright and film expert […]
By Bob Grimm Dang, it’s got to be difficult to make a good ghost movie. There have been so damn many; how do you find a unique take on such a played-out genre? Director Steven […]
Our reviewer shares insight on inaugurals, apprentices, and primeval excitements By Juan-Carlos Selznick The last report from the Stream & Dream Lounge appeared here in June, 2024. Our viewing of motion pictures has continued more […]
By Bob Grimm I’ve said this annually as of late: Hey, this past year was not awesome for movies. Hollywood is still scrambled up from those strikes and the confinement-causing viruses that threw the industry […]
By Bob Grimm Director Robert Eggers keeps rolling with Nosferatu, a long-gestating take on the classic vampire tale. This film is not only one of the year’s best horror films, but one of the greatest genre […]
By Bob Grimm The movie surrounding him is merely decent—but Timothee Chalamet is so incredible as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown that he elevates the film. Under the direction of James Mangold (Walk the Line), Chalamet […]
By Bob Grimm It’s already been seventeen years since David Fincher released his supremely well-done Zodiac, starring Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal as a combination of detectives and reporters trying to track down […]
By Bob Grimm With Joker (2019), director Todd Phillips gave us a very popular movie that was a rip-off of Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. Not an homage … a rip-off. The results were big box office, massive critical acclaim […]
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