Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Boy oh boy have I got a pile of film thoughts for you today, ranging across nearly a full century of cinematic history. We’ve essentially run through both the first- and second-tier films of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, meaning our current selections tend to group into two categories: film classics I seek out myself, or random crap that my housemates put on before I can convince them to watch a classic. This on the whole results in a fairly balanced film diet, as I have much less trouble agreeing to watch garbage than intentionally putting it on myself. Plus, it seems you sickos actually enjoy watching me tear stuff apart, so I suppose this works out best for everyone. Without further ado, let’s charge through some fresh films!
Category Archives: Week in Review
Fall 2021 – Week 9 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I have a confession to make: I am currently typing to you from some point in the indeterminate past, having watched so many recent movies that I’ve actually developed a “Week in Review buffer.” Look, it’s not my fault: first we ran out of new One Piece episodes, and then we beat our Playstation 5 games, and now we’re back to relying on the endless bounty of cinematic history to keep us distracted. I’m currently writing this introduction while gazing in horror at the list of films I’ve already got to review for next week’s post, so I suppose you can all be assured that The Content Will Flow for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, please enjoy this fresh set of film reflections, and know I’m hard at work excavating the content mines of the future!
Fall 2021 – Week 8 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It is now officially too cold to comfortably go outside, which signals the beginning of my six-month griping session about the misery of living in New England. I believe I’ve basically had enough of seasons all together at this point, and would move to someplace nice and perpetually temperate like Los Angeles – it’s just, you know, all my stuff is here. But fortunately for you all, the advent of the Suck Months has also left even more time for movie screenings, which I have dutifully translated into an unwieldy tower of random reflections. Let’s warm ourselves with the magic of the cinema, as we ramble through another Week in Review!
Fall 2021 – Week 7 in Review
Buckle up and secure your hands over your peepers, folks. We ended up screening a horror-themed collection of films this week, perfectly on time with… fuck, Halloween was like three weeks ago, wasn’t it? Alright, fine, we just watched a bunch of horror movies because we like horror movies. Watching a bunch of idiots stumble around and get sequentially liquified has become our comfort food in times of trouble, as we high-five their harbingers and make wagers on survivors and applaud the brutality of their kills. The violence is so abstracted it becomes almost freeing; while many of the best horror films draw on the anxieties that populate our own world, they refract those horrors into a universe where courage and a sturdy axe just might see you through. And even if a horror film does genuinely unsettle me – good! I like being scared! When I get back to writing fiction, I expect to begin by cataloging a few of my own nightmares – until then, let’s see what beasties await in the Week in Review!
Fall 2021 – Week 6 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With the immediate pandemonium of the Playstation 5’s arrival cooling into a calmer epoch of peaceful coexistence, we were able to sift through a generous variety of films this week, with selections ranging from acclaimed new films to unimpeachable classics to the usual algorithm-driven outliers. There was also Nicolas Cage in one of the most gloriously ill-fitting wigs of his entire career, but I’ll save that for the end. I know, I know, you’re all hungry for the Cage… you know what, I’ll start off with a different Cage performance, and then we can work our way towards the power metal hair. Let’s get to it!
Fall 2021 – Week 5 in Review
Hoo boy, we watched some garbage this week, folks. It wasn’t really intentional – my housemates have learned to schedule their hate-watching outside of my hangout hours, and we entered all of these films with the hope of at least being entertained, if not enriched by the experience. But somehow the cards just didn’t fall in our favor, and we ended up watching a half-dozen or so films that peaked at “middling” and bottomed at “how much longer is this, again?” So congrats folks, it looks like I’ll be back on my old bullshit for a moment, as I callously assess and disregard a pile of film productions, and also mention maybe one or two ones. Let’s get to it!
Fall 2021 – Week 4 in Review
Alright folks, pile in, pile in, we’ve got a full session to get through and no time to waste. As is so often the case, this was an eclectic week in film viewing, with our selections ranging from unimpeachable classics to balletic martial arts displays to subversive horror revivals. I even tried out some of this season’s new anime, though to be honest my experiences were routine enough that they’ll probably just slot in as a few lines at the end. But first, let’s charge through some assorted feature films, as we ramble past one more fleeting Week in Review!
Fall 2021 – Week 3 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. We had a fairly light week in films this time, owing to one singular cause: we finally got a Playstation 5. After half a year of manically following up on twitter alerts and supply dumps, I was able to cross state lines to procure this bizarrely inaccessible console. As a result, a fair amount of the time that might have been dedicated to films was instead poured into videogames, as I hacked through Demon’s Souls for my fourth or fifth time, and commenced a group playthrough of Resident Evil VIII.
Fortunately, we still made time for some film screenings in the margins, and this time we even knocked out some classics. Let’s see where the rambling takes us then, as we wander through another Week in Review!
Fall 2021 – Week 2 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. In keeping with the season, this week we tackled a variety of horror films, with decidedly mixed results. Look, my hand wasn’t really on the wheel this week – I was busy trying to clear out the upper heats of Slay the Spire, and thus many of our films were decided by whatever my housemates found on Hulu or Netflix. But we still checked out a couple quasi-classics, and there was plenty of fun to be had even in the less acclaimed selections. Even now, it feels immensely freeing to no longer be writing formal reviews; even deeply flawed films often have something interesting within them, something that couldn’t really be reflected in a “final score.” Let’s dive into the cinematic weeds then, as we commence one more Week in Review!
Fall 2021 – Week 1 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. The fall season has officially started, meaning we’re gearing up for another bout of seasonal depression, or as I like to call it, depression. I’m not the most cheerful of souls at the best of the times, but the dreary winter weather certainly doesn’t help. Like many folks, I often write to intellectualize my feelings, and through defining them hope to resolve or at least come to peace with them. Like Dobu says, most people don’t think about themselves all that much; writing at times feels like an act of therapy, so I hope you all forgive me for taking advantage of my platform to mumble about my feelings.
Of course, one of my most sure-fire ways to get out of my own head is to get into someone else’s head, and explore their take on the world for a while. Thus this was a fairly productive week, as we knocked out a mixed bag of films, along with a couple of acclaimed streaming series. Let’s break ‘em all down in the Week in Review!