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One Movie Punch

Jan 31, 2018

Today’s movie is “After the Storm” (2016), an independent Japanese family drama centered around Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a former novelist and current private detective struggling with a gambling addiction, paying child support to his ex-wife, Kyôko (Yôko Maki), dealing with the death of his estranged father,...


Jan 30, 2018

Today’s movie is “Beauty and the Beast” (2017), the live action remake of the Disney animated classic, starring Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, and Luke Evans as Gaston. Full disclosure: the original animated version was the first film that ever made me cry while watching it, specifically the title...


Jan 29, 2018

Today’s movie is “Captain America: The First Avenger”, starring Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, a sickly young man desperate to join the army to fight the Nazis during World War II. After being rejected for medical reasons, a Nazi defector and scientist named Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) sees potential in...


Jan 28, 2018

Today’s movie is “Blue Velvet” (1986), David Lynch’s fourth feature film and the aesthetic precursor to “Twin Peaks” (1990), “Lost Highway” (1997), and “Mulholland Dr.” (2001). The film follows Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle Maclachlan), who has returned to Lumberton to see his father after an accident...


Jan 27, 2018

Today’s movie is “A Futile & Stupid Gesture” (2018), starring Will Forte and Martin Mull as Doug Kenney, the co-founder of National Lampoon and the driving force behind “National Lampoon’s Animal House” and “Caddyshack”. The film takes a slightly sanitized look at Kenney’s early days at the Harvard...