Thus begins Vilettante (pronounced vil-EH-taunt), the video blog that looks classy but is really trashy. And flippant, irreverent, and anti-trend.
This blog will mainly focus upon lesser-known and more obscure works. I don't have a hard-and-fast rule about not mentioning popular films, but you will not find any reviews or discussions of the latest blockbusters, or economic parsing of this or that movie's box-office performance.
I'm not interested in quantifying what I watch. When I write about a given work, it'll usually be obvious whether or not I liked it, but there will no ratings assigned, nor any paragraphs expended arguing that Tentacle Monster Film X is better than Tentacle Monster Film Y.
The focus here will be upon works available on streaming and physical home media like DVDs and Blu-rays. I stopped regularly seeing movies in theaters some years ago, partly due to low value for cost and partly because of audience misbehavior, and I have no intention of ever starting again.
There will be a particular emphasis here upon documentaries, especially nature/wildlife documentaries, which in my opinion are severely underappreciated and little discussed by professional critics (unless they have celebrity narrators, of course).
Whenever possible, I'll include links to the works that I write about, so that readers can see it for themselves and form their own opinions. Expect regular references to streaming guides like JustWatch, as well as free streaming services like Kanopy, Hoopla, and Tubi.
Until the next scene...stay vile.
