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Stay out of the shower, 3.5 readers. BQB here, still checking out Peacock’s Alfred Hitchcock collection as I wait for corona lockdown to wind down. It’s funny, I’ve seen the original movie, but I and I bet most people know the gist of the story. I did see the 1990s remake and I recall bits […]

BQB’s Classic Movie Reviews – Psycho (1960) — Bookshelf Battle

Let me start with this – I have never understood why this movie had to be made in the first place. Well, I have, to fix THE “plot hole” of all, according to some fans, as how could something as powerful as THE Death Star could have such a “glaring” weakness?! This honestly has never […]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Review – An unnecessary brilliance — Lost In… Movies

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs The Reverand is unique for two very distinct reasons. For starters, it’s the first interactive special involving the popular Netflix comedy. Audience members are able to use their remote controls to pick how the story progresses and how it ends. Also of note is that the latest in the Kimmy […]

Review: ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs The Reverand’ — Deweysmovies.com

The Great Depression impacted countless lives and lead people to go to extraordinary measures to try and survive – and in 1932, just over a hundred couples descend on a shabby California ballroom, where they will be taking part in the infamous Mammoth Marathon, a dance competition where the last couple standing will receive a […]

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) — Movies Unchained

His recent output has made us collectively reevaluate the career of Adam Sandler, where his skills as a comedic actor, which were previously subjected to enormous disdain as a result of his vast amount of seeming-lacklustre work, being given another chance, with the clear conclusion being that, despite often appearing in awful films, Sandler as […]

Big Daddy (1999) — Movies Unchained

Faces tells the tales of a deteriorating marriage and portrays the intersecting stories of two people coming to terms with their newly-found independence. Richard (John Marley) is a successful businessman who requests a divorce from his wife, with the final blow to their already-fragile marriage being his encounter with Jeannie (Gena Rowlands), who may or […]

Faces (1968) — Movies Unchained

Annie (Scarlett Johansson) has just graduated college, where she was pursuing a degree in Anthropology, a subject that she was always passionate about, as evident in her fascination with the people around her and how the world is composed of many different intersecting lives. However, her prospects for the future are not as bright as […]

The Nanny Diaries (2007) — Movies Unchained

Literary adaptations come in many different forms – there are those that remain very close to the source material, and those that update it, whether contemporizing it or just extracting a few general themes and infusing them into a more loosely-structured version of the story. Occasionally, there are adaptations that somehow manage to do both […]

Emma (2020) — Movies Unchained

I’d like to break from decorum for just a moment and speak on a personal note. This review is one that I have been anxiously awaiting to write for a while now. For those of you who have followed me for a while, you’ll know that I normally commemorate milestone reviews with films that are […]

Spirited Away (2001) — Movies Unchained

“Decrucify the angel, or else I’ll melt your face!” I’m not sure why Barbarella exists, but I am so glad it does. Roger Vadim, never quite considered the authority on niche subjects like “subtlety”, “decency” or “logical storytelling”, managed to make a film that somehow went from nothing more than a cheap exploitation film about […]

Barbarella (1968) — Movies Unchained