Month: December 2019

  • The Wizard

    I’m sure I watched this back in the day, but I had zero memory of the story — other than it culminates in a tournament, and Super Mario Bros. 3 makes an appearance. Didn’t even remember that Christian Slater is in this! I really don’t get why they wanted to mix a pretty serious drama…

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    The Indy movies (with the exception of course of the 4th one, which I really do wish didn’t exist) continue to be amongst my favorite movies of all time, and so revisiting any of them is like entering familiar happy times. I do wonder how many times I’ve seen each of them — surely a…

  • Licence to Kill

    I don’t usually include Bond films in the year-based movie marathons I do (since I tend to marathon Bond films separately), but I made an exception this time because I was in the mood to watch one, and since I’m going through 1989, Licence to Kill was a good candidate. It isn’t one of my…

  • Christmas Vacation

    I had completely forgotten that the kids in this one are played by Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki! And Julia Louis-Dreyfus! This was pretty fun to watch (dumb fun in the best way) and I’m surprised I haven’t revisited sooner — it feels like I haven’t seen it in a couple of decades. As I…

  • Lethal Weapon 2

    This is another one of those movies that even though I haven’t watched it in decades, it all felt so familiar (especially particular lines) because I must have watched it countless times — I’m pretty sure I had a VHS copy back in the day. Joe Pesci still steals the show in this — and…