I like movies.
Favorite Films = Favorite recent first-time viewings.
A rapturous sensory experience, tripling down on the dreamy rhythms that made Into the Spider-Verse such a marvel. More than any other movie ever made, this one successfully translates the language of comic book storytelling to film.
Moreover, it seems to be in conversation with the last few decades of Spider-Man comics, and how they have honored their storied legacy while also failing to live up to it. Ultimately, Across the Spider-Verse surpasses so much of what has come before…
...Some thoughts, swirling and unwound, on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
...Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman are a sublime match. Both are wildly imaginative on their own. Kaufman's cynicism is tempered by Gondry's humanism; Gondry's twee flights of fancy are kept in check by the uncomfortable honesty of Kaufman's script. A perfect combination...
...I watched this the night before Tom Wilkinson died, an accidental tribute to one of the greats...
...The Peter Travers pull quote on the Blu-ray jacket…
I've written ten screenplays and several short films. The most widely read script of mine has been read by about half-a-dozen people, but I still consider myself a writer first and foremost. As you're writing, your work is solely yours. Once you've finished, it remains yours. But as soon as you release it into the world, as soon as you share it with one friend or colleague, that changes. It doesn't belong to you anymore. Sure, if your work is…
What the fuck did I just watch? No, seriously, someone please explain this movie to me. Chloë Grace Moretz plays 13-year-old Luli, who runs away from her drunkard family and immediately hops into the pick-up truck of a crippled cowboy drifter played by War Horse's exceedingly bland Eddie Redmayne. She calls him a gimp, he doesn't like that, she hops out, sits on the side of the road, and then is almost pissed on by Blake Lively. By the way,…