Unprofessional cinephile who runs a production company on the side.
If it blows your hair back it's worth your time.
I can't remember the last Marvel movie I saw in theaters. End Game, probably.
In today's culture of streaming and live streaming and YouTube rabbit holes and solo binging TV shows and ever-preasent never in the present content consumption and re-re-re-re-re-watching The Office, it's easy to forget that it's really hard to have a bad time watching a good print of a ridiculous movie with a whole lot of great people.
Movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 don't work…
in high school, Goddard, and specifically this film, opened up cinema for me in a way that's happened only a few times in my life. As far as I was concerned at 15 the only thing more hip than the characters on screen was the camera and everything happening behind it: Paris in the 1960's.
Revisiting this film years later feels like going through an old journal or watching the footage before "action" and after "cut" in the homegrown movies…
I could sometimes tell what people were doing and whose neighborhood they were from.
Exceptional animation with a really special take on the story. I really enjoyed this one.
I will never watch a news piece the same way again. This may be David Fincher's most well shot film. That is not a sentence I use lightly. To my observation there is only one handheld shot in the film. Fincher very rarely uses handheld, but almost never as good as this.
Nick Dunne comes home on the morning of his fifth anniversary to find the contents of his home turned over. His wife is gone. No one knows where.…
The first "Raid" film had a certain anonymity to it. The distance from the characters kept the audience from truly having a notion as to who would come out standing. For the most part, "The Raid 2" does away with that. Instead what we have is an attempt at a character driven film with some of the best action presented in the last decade put inside a muddled plot which focuses too much on its villains.
Imagine if "The Godfather"…