Eric J

Midwinter Sacrifice 1946

12m Drama Rated 4.0 out of 5

Beautiful images (thanks to beautifully lit, stark black & white) make up this short about the pagan ritual of sacrificing a man to bring an end to wintertime in Sweden.

I say good luck to all involved.

Journey Through Setomaa 1913

7m Documentary Rated 3.5 out of 5

A really neat look at the lives of the Setomaa folk from the early 1900's. Some really great framing/shots as well.

Boundary 2010

16m Documentary Rated 2.0 out of 5

I would've gotten just as much out of this if it were half as long. In fact, it may have been more impactful.

Jack the Ripper 1976

1h 32m Drama Rated 3.0 out of 5

Kind of a long feeling 92 minutes, but the atmosphere of the streets, getting to really know and love the local establishments, and the kooky townsfolk banding together to try and discover Jack almost nearly make up for it.

Manon of the Spring 1986

1h 55m Drama

Jean de Florette 1986

2h 2m Drama

Busting 1974

1h 32m Crime

Running Scared 1986

1h 47m Comedy

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

The Ballad of Wallis Island 2025

1h 40m Comedy Rated 4.0 out of 5

A very sweet movie that zigs into some expected directions and zags into others one mightn't culminating in a bittersweet and tearful ending.

I liked it!

Violent City 1970

1h 43m Action

Contraband

Illustrious Corpses 1976

2h 1m Thriller

Elevator to the Gallows 1958

1h 32m Crime

Shoot the Piano Player 1960

1h 25m Drama

The King of Comedy 1982

1h 49m Drama

Memoir of a Snail 2024

1h 34m Animation

Dibbuk 2019

36m Horror Rated 4.0 out of 5

Gotta have a minyan if you wanna exorcise a dibbuk.

30 minutes well spent!

Best of the Best

Rated 3.0 out of 5

Fun enough throwback to the teen dance movies from the late 90's/early 2000's, but modernized and Desi.

I'd 2.75 this if I could.

Secret Honor 1984

1h 30m Drama Rated 4.0 out of 5

Paranoid mama's boy Richard Nixon reckons with his life as a pawn.

This was actually an inadvertently neat companion piece to Swimming to Cambodia (1987); both one-man shows that are nearly in conversation with each other.

In Swimming, Spalding Gray (as himself) describes his time spent in Cambodia filming a fictional portrayal of a real-life event.

In Honor, Philip Baker Hall gives a stunning performance as Nixon in a fictional moment of his life (that I guess could've happened) that deals in part with the real-life events discussed in Swimming.

(It's also just wild that all of Robert Altman's signature moves work just as well here with one man as they do in a story with, like, 32 people talking all at once.)