2020 X-Mas Marathon
If your soul was a candle, Derek Cianfrance is the dude wetting his fingertips and pinching the wick.
Probably not the best movie to watch late on Christmas Eve, but then again, this is the kind of thing you want to sit with for a while.
Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke both deliver standout performances, and the sound mixing was really crucial and executed perfectly.
I figured the whole "sound of metal" thing was referring to the…
2020 X-Mas Marathon
Halfway through this film I sent this text to my friends:
"How much do you wanna bet this movie ends with an aerial shot of Vin driving along a coastline with that woman in the passenger seat?"
I also promised to rate this 5 stars if I was right. Watching the last minute of the film unfold into my exact prediction down to the letter made my whole year.
Netflix
Jesus, what a mountain of work this must have been. Who has the motivation to do all of this?
If there is a better one man show that's been put together, I haven't seen it yet.
Cineplex Forum
I really burned out on movies last year with the 500 or so I watched in 2020. I'm only starting to have a desire to get back into it now, but missed pretty much all the Oscar noms and festival stuff that I normally go nuts over every year. I've got some catching up to do, but I did recently go to my first movie at the cinema in over a year with this one.
My daughter is…
Please stop rating random documentaries as if they were the show.
Netflix
Alison Brie's first screenplay is ambitious and original. There is a massive tone shift throughout, but I was hooked the entire time. A lot of people seem to be rating this badly because it "doesn't know what it wants to be" but I disagree. I think it just wants to be a bunch of different things, and I'm here for it.
The characters started out as being instantly lovable, but what is at first an entertaining comedy slowly reveals…
