Sidewinder’s View: Civil War (2024) [Spoiler-Free]

Slow to start, but once it picked up steam, it was extremely intense. Some disliked the fact that the movie didn't take an ideological position that validated their own, but I didn't care about all that. It was just a really well made, scary, and often nerve-wracking Thriller. Worth a rewatch. Some of the criticisms …

Incentives

Earning opportunities are so much more inspiring than a terse "Because I said so".

Misfire

Through these different revisions, I'd been twisting my imagination into a veritable pretzel in an attempt to rationalize something unequivocally absurd.

Sidewinder’s View: I Care A Lot (2020)

As a viewer, I don’t require main characters to be “likeable”, “sympathetic”, “relatable”, i.e. somebody I can “root for”. They simply have to be doing/saying interesting things. That’s what makes a character compelling for me.

Sidewinder’s View: Latino (1985)

From 1985, a film barely released in theaters in early 1986 due to its politically charged subject. https://youtu.be/L3ceI70rBTQ Green Berets in Honduras train Contras to fight in neighboring Nicaragua. The leader of the U.S. troops, played by Robert Beltran (Eating Raoul, Lone Wolf McQuade, Night Of The Comet), falls in love with a Nicaraguan woman …

My Final Homemade FAKE Criterion Of 2020

Today’s PSA

https://youtu.be/3iuSPLth6PY

My Childhood Introduction (and Immediate Farewell) To Boxing

Just another fond memory of my casually violent 1970s childhood.

Sidewinder’s View: Nomads (1986) [SPOILERS]

Trying to make sense, yet again, of writer-director John McTiernan's much derided Metaphysical Mystery.

Sidewinder’s View: Alphabet City (1984) [SPOILERS]

This morning's first movie... https://youtu.be/occTJ1pwv-k ...which I'd last seen 35 years ago on Showtime. I was unimpressed by the film back then, but, hey, I was sixteen. Maybe I was too harsh. Maybe it wasn't as mediocre as I'd thought.  I was mistaken. Alphabet City hasn't improved with the passing of time. Vincent Spano plays …

Homemade FAKE Criterion: I Stand Alone (1998)

After reading about this movie here and there for the past 20 years or so, I finally decided to check it out. Everything I'd read about the film was accurate.