“And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
So here we are. Days away from The Batman, one of the few films that only seems to get better the more people discuss it. Likewise, director Matt Reeves' filmmaking career feels the same way, improving upon each movie in his filmography as time goes on. Cloverfield reinvigorated found footage filmmaking and was one of the first movies that established my appreciation for the horror genre.…
“Who will survive and what will be left of them?”
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre uses innovative filmmaking, powerful performances & a strong sense of tension to create a scarily realistic depiction of rural America. Personally, I feel like it could have been scarier, given that its moments of gore and violence are considerably sharper and more intense than the build-up to them within the first half. While I was interested to see where the story would go during that initial build-up,…
A “cut above”
While Uncut Gems is mostly perfect, I still had a few issues with it. The pacing towards the middle, subtle humor, and abrupt ending, pull the film down to a degree. There’s also no clear messages, which made me wonder what the film’s true intent was. Still The Safdie Brothers and Ronald Bronstein have created something so jarring (in a good way) that it must be seen to be believed. The filmmaking combined with Adam Sandler’s performance…
“A time to remember”
Other than the lack of violence and character development throughout most of 1917, it is truly a masterpiece. Like many war films I’ve seen, we don’t get much background for the central protagonists. Yet somehow, I still found myself concerned for them here. Most of that has to do with the “one shot” editing/ cinematography work helmed by Lee Smith and Roger Deakins, respectively. I felt like I was apart of the war itself, especially this…
