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Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
“I couldn’t direct 30 seconds of that. I’d put a gun in my mouth. I don’t understand how [George Miller] does that, I really don’t, and it’s my job to understand it. I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.”
-Stephen SoderberghThere is a sensation you get watching this that I can only compare to the high of getting in a fight-or-flight,…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
Second viewing: Sadder/funnier/better than the first go around. McDonagh’s masterpiece.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Michelle Yeoh is incredible but Everything Everywhere All at Once is yet another film that splashes around in genre-based fun only to disappointingly reach the “actually this is really about how important family is…” endgame so many contemporary blockbusters seem to be beholden to. Daniels are masters of high-concept stupidity but I miss the simple pleasures of Daniel Radcliffe’s farting corpse. Not bad by any means, but, for me, not the life changing work it’s hyped up to be.