ogradyfilm
Dec 2, 20182 min read
Review: Defending Your Life
Heard through the grapevine that Metrograph would be hosting an Albert Brooks retrospective, so today, I ventured out to Ludlow Street to...
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Heard through the grapevine that Metrograph would be hosting an Albert Brooks retrospective, so today, I ventured out to Ludlow Street to...
Feeling a bit under the weather today, so after running some errands, I decided to stay in and take it easy. Fortunately, I had a great...
Went to Metrograph for what should have been a showcase of animator Makoto Shinkai’s early shorts (including She and Her Cat, which I’ve...
Fantastic Planet reawakened my appetite for nontraditional animation, so today, I ventured out to Sunshine Cinema to see Loving Vincent,...
Work tomorrow doesn’t start until later in the afternoon. Decided to take advantage of this rare opportunity and watch Fantastic Planet...
Thanks to Sunshine Cinema, I’ve finally managed to see every Oscar-nominated animated feature, and I couldn’t be more satisfied with the...
In the process of searching for My Life as a Zucchini, I discovered an arthouse theater called Sunshine Cinema, and while it doesn’t...
Today, I ventured out to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas to see The Red Turtle, the first (to my knowledge, anyway) Studio Ghibli production to be...
Alien: Covenant was a pretty big disappointment. In trying to both build upon the themes he introduced in Prometheus and recapture the...
To kick off the Holiday Season the right way, I logged on to Kanopy to watch Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, a decidedly darker spin on...
How’d I miss the news that these beauties had dropped? I stumbled across them while browsing the shelves at Midtown Comics to kill time...
Back in New York. Watched two in-flight movies on the way over: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms - A beautiful animated fairytale...
Currently in Portland, Oregon for my annual trip with my college buddies. To kill time during the long plane ride over, I watched Neko...
Eager to make use of my MoviePass card before the service crashes and burns permanently, I ventured out to Metrograph to catch a...
Spent most of the day trying to decide what movie I wanted to watch. I’ve been running on fumes since Wednesday afternoon, so I was...
Caught a screening of Alexandre Rockwell’s In the Soup at IFC Center. I’ve been meaning to watch this since I first saw Four Rooms, the...
Just got back in from a screening of Mirai, the latest masterpiece from anime auteur Mamoru Hosoda. If Wolf Children represents the...
Logged on to Kanopy to watch Ida, a beautiful Polish movie about a young orphan who, at the behest of the Catholic nuns that raised her,...
I’ve been meaning to check out the filmography of Belgian director Chantal Akerman for quite a while now, so tonight, I popped in...
One song can save the world. At least, that’s the thesis statement of Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story, a film in which an obscure punk...

