Thursday, December 25, 2025

Best new-to-me films I saw in 2025

 Mix of familiar and lesser known:

 THE VELVET TOUCH

 GIRL WITH A SUITCASE

 MY TRUE STORY

 THE STEEL TRAP

 CLASH BY NIGHT

 THE KILLERS 1946

 THE LIBERATION OF L.B. JONES

 BLACK GRAVEL

 STREETS OF FIRE

 THE HARDER THEY FALL 1956

 UPTIGHT

 THE MURDERERS ARE AMONG US

 NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL 

 THE LONG HAUL

 DEEP CRIMSON (Director’s Cut)

 CRY OF THE CITY

 THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK 

2025 MOVIES: GOOD, BETTER, BEST (First Draft)

In approximate order of release:

BLACK BAG

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

SINNERS

THE SHROUDS

BRING HER BACK

28 YEARS LATER

F1

KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR (Cannes version)

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST

WEAPONS

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

THE SMASHING MACHINE

CHRISTY

FRANKENSTEIN 

RENTAL FAMILY 

WAKE UP DEAD MAN

HAMNET

Monday, December 22, 2025

New Poem:60 MINUTES RAMBLE

 where does it go now

 more begging for government permission 

 return to Mike Wallace investigations

 maybe if certain businesses aren’t touched 

 point counterpoint with Bari Weiss and Scott Pelley

 Jesse Watters as the new Andy Rooney

 go along get along comments by Anderson Cooper

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 as this is being written, I’m not reading about 

 any profiles in courage people quitting on principle 

 unless that happens after Bari’s referendum on feminism