21MAR2021
51/100
Man... this movie was all over the place, somewhat of an -at times- beautiful mess. Almost every element of the movie was overdone and underdone at times in a way I’ve rarely seen before, with the pluses coming through Tom Holland’s performance and some incredible shots and the minuses coming through the haphazard nature of the movie and a tendency for the Russo Brothers to spent questionable amounts of time on some of the more uninteresting aspects of…
Provocative at its core, The End of the Tour follows the days spent between Rolling Stones writer David Lipsky and the brilliant David Foster Wallace, author of acclaimed novel "Infinite Jest." The account, although fictionally presented, is truly compelling, lending insight into the thoughts of a genius author, which can extend on a larger scale to encompass the general aura of the stereotypical introspective (dare I say reclusive) littérateur. Specifically, the personal relationship between the two men, forming the basis for…
May the Fourth be with you! This is the OG classic, had to give it a watch to celebrate in style!
The main character never seemed to win any of his fights without some sort of divine help out of nowhere. Kind of got old. The fighting sequences were INSANE though.
24NOV2020
66/100
I don’t exactly understand why this movie has been hit so hard in the form of negative reviews, but from my point of view the performances carry an intriguing sequence of events, and Ron Howard’s directorial style delivers another good movie (albeit not his finest work by a long shot). Hillbilly Elegy is the type of film that one can get a high rewatch value out of, and much of that is due to the ease with which…
