Watching Everything Everywhere All At Once sweep the Oscars made me reflect on this film a bit and how much it paved the way for the increase in the number of Asian-led films that have come out since 2018. It's insane to think that before this film, The Joy Luck Club, which came out twenty-five years before this, was the last film with a full Asian cast to get a wide release. It makes me overjoyed that we're finally gettingβ¦
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Titanic 1997
If you were to ask me to make a list of my top ten favorite songs of all time, I think the most famous song on that list would probably be Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah.
Classic/iconic films come with a lot of baggage. These films have been so integral to pop culture that you inevitably feel underwhelmed when you actually sit down and watch the film. Or maybe the media oversaturated the film to a point where it just didn't feelβ¦
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Apollo 10Β½: A Space Age Childhood 2022
Was charming at first but it quickly became repetitive with its extreme 1960s nostalgia. The rotoscoping is cool though, and I wouldn't say it's bad, per se, but it's probably the weakest Linklater I've seen thus far.
I know these two movies are quite different in their storytelling approaches but this film really makes me appreciate how much of an achievement First ManΒ is.
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Captain Fantastic 2016
Liked it but didn't love it. Feels too much like your typical standard Sundance hit at times and becomes too quirky for its own good (I don't know why, but the Sweet Child o' Mine cover made the film feel like a parody for some reason).
BUT you cannot deny how much heart there is in this film, and really shows you how Ben's method of raising his children can leave both a positive and negative impression on them in a way that feels unbiased and unjudgmental. Viggo Mortensen is great as usual.
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Broker 2022
I'll probably see a lot of great movies for the next few days, but I highly doubt anything will be as good as Broker. Twenty minutes into the movie and I already knew this was going to be a masterpiece. It's probably Kore-eda's most plot-driven film, but it still *feels* like classic Kore-eda. Brilliant screenplay and such an emotional plot. It's just right up my alley.
There is a sequence that takes place in a Ferris wheel partway through theβ¦
