The Free Movie Idealist
Free Movie IdeasWriting about screen storytelling every ten days or so, from your friend Emerson.
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Everything I watched in April 2026
Deadly Sweet
The French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is the kind of inscrutable loner you don’t understand but don’t mind in this Giallo-esque take on the swinging-60s romp. In Godard’s hands he may have been verbose and rather annoyin...
Reverse Shallow Hal
…Meets The Whale
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Everything I watched in March 2026
Harakiri
If you’ve been keeping up, you know I don’t exclusively watch great films. Not that I don’t think every movie isn’t already pretty great for existing, but I tend to learn as much from the stinkers as the Chandon, and there are...
Everything I watched in February 2026
Dog Day
As a big fan of Lee Marvin, this had been on my watchlist for some time. As a big fan of delayed gratification (Lord knows), I have a tendency to shelf the films I’m most excited to see. Some six years after getting this on my...
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