‘Movie Corner’ Archives
Marty Supreme
from the series Movie Corner... 20254.5/5 StarsDrama/Sport/Romance/Thriller/Period PieceA24 By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II Josh Safdie’s film Marty Supreme is about a young man’s feverish passion to be the best ping pong player in the world. Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser (loosely based on the real-life American ping -pong champion, Marty Reisman, in New York City in the 1950s). Mr. Supreme needs to scrounge as much as he can to take a flight to Tokyo for the world championships. However, he gets entangled in some get-rich-quick scams that lead down the path of intrigue and danger before his trip to Tokyo becomes a reality. His love interest, Rachel Mizler, unfortunately gets tied up in the fray. Safdie picks an excellent subject for a movie. Ping pong is hard to find in filmography except perhaps in a fleeting scene or two or three in Forrest Gump. It’s not easy to make or memorize the moves on a ping pong table. It is Diego Schaaf and his [...]
The Best Films of 2025
from the series Movie Corner... By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II Sinners - Director: Ryan CooglerOne Battle After Another - Director: Paul Thomas AndersonHamnet - Director: Chloe ZhaoMarty Supreme - Director: Josh Safdie*The Dance is Not Over - Director: Mark Wojahn*Regretfully at Dawn - Director: Sivaroj KongsakulThe Life of Chuck - Director: Mike FlanaganGood Boy - Director: Ben LeonbergWeapons - Director: Zach CreggarBugonia - Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Suggested Film:Eddington - Director: Ari Aster 50th Anniversary of Films:Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) - Director: Milos Forman *Appeared in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
Hamnet
from the series Movie Corner... 5/5 Stars Period Piece/Romance/DramaFocus Features By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II When I was a kid, I had a love for period pieces and other genres such as Anthony Mann’s El Cid (1961) and Peter Glenville’s Becket (1964). Fast forward to December 2025 as I watched the highly touted film Hamnet. Hamnet is hauntingly filled with grief as the pestilence lies in the background like a leopard waiting in a bush before it pounces on its prey. At the center of this 16th century (c1590) English village is William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and three children, one of whom is the young boy named Hamnet. In Shakespeare’s time, the names of “Hamnet” and “Hamlet” were interchangeable. Agnes is an extraordinary woman as a healer and Will a promising playwright and actor. Focus Features Hamnet is told through the eyes of Agnes as a family affair. Even when death grips the most vulnerable, it is life that is fervently [...]
