Stuart Forman
Astrophotographer and movie dork
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Review of ‘The Zone of Interest’ (2023) ★★★★★letterboxd.com This is a very difficult movie to review and is best seen cold for maximum impact. I will leak that this is a Holocaust movie about the life of the family of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of…
Review of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (2023) ★★★★½letterboxd.com This is such a great film. Scorcese is 81 years old and shows no signs of slowing down. His last work was an epic gangster film, The Irishman, and he follows it up by an even better epic gangster…
Review of ‘Blast of Silence’ (1961) ★★★½letterboxd.com Allen Baron, who would later be known as a frequent director of shows such as Love Boat, Love American Style, Fantasy Island and Brady Bunch, decided in 1960 to make a low budget neo-noir thriller.…
Review of ‘The Holdovers’ (2023) ★★★½letterboxd.com This is a film you've seen before. A troubled student and a grouchy curmudgeonly teacher are thrown into a situtation together and they come to mutual respect and understanding. But in this case…
Review of ‘The Age of Innocence’ (1993) ★★★★★letterboxd.com The title of Roger Ebert's Great Movie review of The Age of Innocence is "Brutality beneath the manners." Indeed. The film takes place in 1890's New York high society where the rich families style…
Review of ‘The Cat Returns’ (2002) ★★★letterboxd.com This is a fun little yarn from Studio Ghibli and is the only feature film by director animator Hiroyuki Morita. Miyazaki was a consultant on the film but I don’t know how much he was involved. T...
Review of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (2015) ★★★★★letterboxd.com This is a review for the Black and Chrome edition of Mad Max: Fury Road. The color version is sensational with deep yellows and blues but I've known about the Black and Chrome edition for awhile and��...
Review of ‘Remember the Night’ (1940) ★★★letterboxd.com I have decided, now that I'm pushing 60, that I could watch Barbara Stanwyck rip toilet paper. She sparkles as a jewel thief (see what I did there?) who is caught in the act of selling the gem she…
Review of ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ (2023) ★★letterboxd.com Has it really been 23 years since the original Chicken Run film? There are a lot of things that make me feel feel old nowadays, but this was the latest stake in the heart. Chicken Run, Dawn of the…
Review of ‘Godzilla Minus One’ (2023) ★★★½letterboxd.com There have been over 30 Godzilla films, and you'd be forgiven if you see that this one is in the theater and you roll your eyes. But as the final credits rolled in Godzilla Minus One my friend said,��...
Review of ‘The Band Wagon’ (1953) ★★★★letterboxd.com The Band Wagon is a film directed by Vicente Minelli that is impossible to spoil. In my reviews I will often warn you to go in cold or not to read any other write ups but The Band Wagon is so well…
Review of ‘Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game’ (2022) ★★★boxd.it If you're ever in the SF Bay Area there is a wonderful little museum in Alameda called the Pacific Pinball Museum. The curators have lovingly restored over a hundred games dating back to the…
Review of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ (1968) ★★★★letterboxd.com When I was a young child, I got this record album along with Jungle Book. They were my first two actual records for my record player and it's not an understatement to say that I probably listened to��...