Buckle up, everyone. Once again, the absence of a steady One Piece supply led us to gorge ourselves on feature films, as we feasted on a diverse array of recent flicks, classics, and genre oddballs. Having already watched plenty of the acclaimed spaghetti and revisionist westerns, it’s been interesting to push backwards into westerns’ original golden age. Westerns dominated Hollywood for years, but these days, their most lasting cultural influence is tied to movies that dispel the myth of the heroic cowboy. As a result, diving deeper into westerns has provided fascinating context for the films I’ve already seen, helping to fill in the dialogue that Sergio Leone and others were in conversation with. So let’s start with some westerns then, as we barrel through another Week in Review!
Category Archives: Week in Review
Summer 2021 – Week 12 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week saw us experiencing the full consequences of catching up with One Piece, as hours upon hours of dedicated One Piece time were instead all poured into feature films. We watched a tremendous number of features this week, and I even finished She-ra alongside them, so this week’s gonna be something of a cinematic lightning round. There were old films, new films, red films and blue films, with everything we watched ranging from at least passable to genuinely fantastic. We’ve got a lot of Content to get through, so let’s not waste any more time, and charge through another Week in Review!
Summer 2021 – Week 11 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With One Piece finally in the rear view, the floodgates were opened this week, as we replaced hours of dedicated One Piece time with even more feature films. I actually watched even more films than I had time to write about this week, but don’t worry! All the excess Content will surely pop up in next week’s article. In the meantime, this was a week of recent highlights, as we checked out two of 2021’s top films, as well as a magnificent work from 2020.
It’s difficult to express how exciting it is to feel my art critique muscles being stressed and rebuilt this rigorously; with every film we screen, I feel just a sliver of added context, and that much more attunement with the infinite tapestry of artistic form and influence. There’s just so much to see, so much I don’t know, and grappling with that is both exhilarating and kinda terrifying. The world of storytelling is vaster than any person could chart, but as long as I know more today than I did yesterday, I think I’m on the right track. But enough starry-eyed rambling, let’s break down some films!
Summer 2021 – Week 10 in Review
Buckle up everyone, we have got a pile of properties to get through and not much time to do it. This was a productive week in film-watching for me, though my selections were admittedly a little scattershot, and perhaps more beholden to the Netflix algorithm than usual. We also continued to barge through She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, taking down seasons two and three, and polishing off the rest of One Piece while we were at it. Yes yes, end of an era and all that, but I’m trying not to feel too broken up about it – after all, post-Oden Wano is still a damn good weekly anime, leaving me something to look forward to on the weekends. That aside, we’ve got a pile of films to sort through, so let’s not waste any more time, and dive into the Week in Review!
Summer 2021 – Week 8 in Review
Jeez, the anime seasonal schedule is all kinds of messed up, huh? According to broadcast schedules, late August is somehow just two-thirds of the way through the summer season. Well, I can’t exactly complain, and it’s frankly my own fault for not transitioning to a more appropriate title system over a year ago. I dunno, the 13-week divisions just seem like a convenient partitioning device; and at this point, it’d probably be more confusing to change the system, anyway.
That aside, you folks probably aren’t here to read me muse about the outdated framing of these vaguely defined articles. You’re here for some friggin’ reviews, and I’m here to provide, with an odd selection of features ranging from giant ants to journeys beyond the stars. There’s an insurmountably vast number of great films out there, and I’m delighted to share and reflect on just a few more of them. Let’s get to work!
Summer 2021 – Week 7 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time! I’ve got a couple choice film cuts for you all today, as we explored an old American classic, and a more recent anime one. I’d been meaning to get to Tekkonkinkreet forever, and while I loved the film, I’m a little annoyed that watching it has only left me with even more homework, as now I must read everything Taiyo Matsumoto has ever written. Additionally, we’ve hit the second act break in Wano, which I’ve decided is a fine opportunity to take stock of the journey so far. And before you even ask, no I have not yet seen the final Evangelion movie, but I will as soon as possible! Believe me, you folks will be the first to know, so long as I see it on a Tuesday night and don’t talk to anyone else before my Wednesday post goes up. In the meantime, let’s break down some films!
Summer 2021 – Week 6 in Review
Hello folks, and what the heck is up. Personally, I’ve been feeling pretty good about my progress getting back into regular jogging – there were a disappointingly sedentary couple of years there, but I’ve recently been sticking to three runs a week, and feeling both physically and emotionally better for it. Anyway, we’ve got an excellent set of films to run through today, ranging from a David Lynch classic to some actual goddamn anime. Meanwhile, I’ve still been plugging away at One Piece, and recently wrote up a Whole Cake-centric exploration of family. I’m frankly not emotionally prepared for One Piece to exit my life, and you’ll be getting an article soon about how that feels as well, but for now I’m enjoying Wano with all the passion I can possibly muster. In the meantime, let’s peruse some fine film selections, as we sort through another Week in Review!
Summer 2021 – Week 5 in Review
Buckle up folks, we’ve got a pile of films to get through and not much time to do it! The house was pretty darn productive this week, with our viewings ranging from mid-century horror to modern family films, along with a delightful garnish of One Piece. We are at this point in full savoring mode for Wano, consuming only an episode or two at a time, and making the most of what we have left. After all, when each sequence of episodes offers a few highlights like this, it feels like it’d be disrespectful to rush through. In the meantime, we’ve actually been turning back to catch up on all the filler episodes we initially skipped past, and enjoying the low-stakes nostalgia of conflicts like “Sanji’s gotta win a cooking contest!” It’s been a cheery week on the whole, and I’m eager to share my findings with you all, so let’s get started on the Week in Review!
Summer 2021 – Week 4 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the site. With summer in full swing, I actually took a trip with my family from Monday through, uh, literally today, so you’ll have to excuse me if today’s post is on the lighter side. Fortunately, I still did manage to cram in some essential film viewings, including one of the most acclaimed horror movies still on my list. I’m frankly not sure how many other acclaimed horror movies I’ve got left, at least without dipping deeply into franchise sequels. I’m thinking I’ve got a big Italian wave coming – Argento has dazzled me basically every time, so it’s past time I moved beyond him in my gallio research, and munched through the films of Lucio Fulci and so on. As for One Piece, I’m trying to actually savor Wano, rather than gorge myself on it until there’s no Wano left, so it’ll be a little time yet until I have further thoughts there. But for now, let’s burn through some film reviews!
Summer 2021 – Week 3 in Review
How the hell do these articles keep getting so long. The movie reviews were supposed to be quick reads, just a paragraph or so! I’m pretty sure they started as blurbs, but like all of my projects, I eventually start writing until there are no more words to write, and doubling my workload for no particularly good reason.
Well, I’ve got a meaty one for you all this week, full of diverse movie reviews, as well as the requisite dash of One Piece. Having spent most of the year so far powering through dozens of episodes a week, it’s a little unnerving to consider that I’m less than a hundred episodes from the finish line. Fortunately, Wano is such a visual upgrade for the series that I really can’t watch at the pace I used to, and am now forced to actually appreciate each episode with my full, undivided attention. “One Piece has gotten too beautiful to speed-watch” is a pretty nice problem to have, so I’ve few complaints as we enter the show’s current arc. In the meantime, let’s burn down some fresh films!