top of page
Search
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
I have a deep well of fondness for this movie. It just makes my heart happy and a lot of times when I watch it, it feels like it was...
5 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
If I have a sweet spot in film genre, it's melancholy existential comedy with a sweet romantic twist. This one ticks all those boxes. I...
2 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
I've been hoping and wishing that this movie would come up. It's the Hot Fuzz of Wes Anderson's work for me, which is to say, I didn't...
1 view0 comments
Shannon Heibler
2 min read
Lethal Weapon (1987)
When I told Ben that we were watching Lethal Weapon for this week's movie, he was shocked I own it. "Of course!" I said. "It's a great,...
1 view0 comments
Shannon Heibler
4 min read
The Matrix (1999)
This movie blew my mind when I saw it (a couple of years after it came out), as I think it did for most people. A friend brought it to a...
0 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
Knives Out (2019)
I'm wary of parasocial relationships, especially with actors [knowing look], but goshdarnit I just love a movie that seems like a bunch...
3 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
4 min read
Twister (1996)
This movie rocks. I wish movies like this were still made. Low gore, high excitement, low kill count, high stakes. Jan de Bont, we salute...
1 view0 comments
Shannon Heibler
4 min read
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
This is my favorite Studio Ghibli film. But you know what's funny? I don't think I could tell you what it's about. I mean, I can tell you...
4 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
The Favourite (2018)
Ooowheeee I was nervous about this one. I loved it so very much when we saw it in the theater. I knew it was mostly the actors (okay,...
3 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
2 min read
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
This was the last film we saw in theaters before the pandemic began in earnest. I had never seen a Fast and/or Furious movie but I knew...
7 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
X (2022)
If there's a silly pop culture hill I'll die on, it's that 2022 was the best single year for horror films in the history of cinema. And a...
7 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
4 min read
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
It feels like this film is thread woven in the tapestry of my life. But I actually came to it a little "late"! I remember the "cool"...
8 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
4 min read
Hot Fuzz (2007)
This was my least favorite of the Cornetto Trilogy for the longest time. Then, around the time I started doing theater professionally...
5 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
Run Lola Run/Lola Rennt (1998)
I vividly remember seeing this for the first time after renting it because so many of my new film loving friends in college loved it. I...
8 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
4 min read
Mary Poppins (1964)
I had a lot of feelings going into this one. First and foremost, excitement because this has always been one of my favorite "play in the...
16 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
So I saw this pretty soon after it came out, loved it, bought it on DVD, and never watched it again until this viewing. I know I was...
6 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
5 min read
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
This movie was verboten in my childhood (with good reason) but by the time I surreptitiously watched it on cable, or bought it...
8 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1947)
In the many ways I've let my work on this blog pile up, this is the one I maybe regret the most? Simply because, in very typical Shannon...
6 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
3 min read
Vertical Limit (2000)
This movie has everything. Inaccurate depictions (I guess? Who's to say? Not me.) of rock climbing! Billionaires being billionaires!...
8 views0 comments
Shannon Heibler
5 min read
V for Vendetta (2005)
I must start by confessing that when I saw this in theaters with friends, they came out cheering, and I came out deeply distressed. The...
5 views0 comments
bottom of page