The Exorcist is the only movie that makes me wish I was Catholic so it would scare me.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi 2022
The only rational explanation for how I managed to finish this likely stems from my mother neglecting to hold me enough as an infant which somehow manifested itself into a constant need to be emotionally dominated by awful tv shows.
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In the Soup 1992
A proper prequel to Living in Oblivion. Buscemi saying he wants to make something like Jean Renoir or Andrei Tarkovsky and Cassel immediately cutting him off with “no no, don’t pull that shit” is a god tier movie producer move.
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Mission: Impossible 1996
The whole movie could be total dogshit and we’d still have the amazing Prague scene, the amazing scene where Ethan screams “my team is DEAD!” into a pay phone, the amazing scene where Ethan sits at the computer for six minutes and it keeps cross dissolving to more shots of him sitting at the computer, the amazing scene with the diner and the gum and the aquarium, the amazing scene where Ethan meets Max and they verbally fuck for five minutes,…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
You’d have to be softer than owl pellets to have a panic attack and walk out of this one. Obvious horror hype tactic is obvious. Maybe Cronenberg is mellowing out in his old age; maybe he’s honing in on the things that matter. Crimes of the Future has excellent world building and rich themes; the score, photography, and craft elements are top notch; and a handful of scenes bump against the ceiling of transcendent. And yet and yet and yet……
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
“It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot.” Most big budget movies could learn a thing or two about that. Not Top Gun: Maverick though, cause Top Gun: Maverick rules. No asterisk, no addendum, no apologies.
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