by Jason Bovberg | Mar 29, 2022 | Film, Reviews
Will there ever be a film more precisely attuned to the mood of 2022, post-pandemic, post-Trump-debacle, mid-social-media-addicted ADHD? Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once is an adrenaline blast directly to the heart and...
by Jason Bovberg | Jan 5, 2022 | Film
Heading warily into 2021, I wasn’t a confident moviegoer. After all, 2020 had been a cinematic wipeout thanks to the global pandemic and its resulting quarantines. But as cinemas gradually re-opened, and I committed myself to attending as regularly (and...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 26, 2019 | Film, Ingmar Bergman, Reviews
In June 1983, my dad dropped me off at an Edwards Cinema near South Coast Plaza, in Santa Ana, California, to see Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, a 3-hour foreign film that had been covered enthusiastically by the Los Angeles Times’ Calendar section. I was 15...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 24, 2014 | Film, Hitchcock, Reviews
After watching nearly all of Alfred’s Hitchcock’s films (save for a few obscure early offerings), I decided to rank them—42 of them!—in order of preference. See if your opinions jibe with mine! Here we go, starting from the top … Psycho...
