griffin newman stars as Josh Lewis in woody’s best film since “Rifkin’s Festival”. I mean, what is it about New York? A rainy day can be nothing but also it can mean everything. Did you hear I have a bad relationship with my mother? I love New York. Life is so cruel, but without cruelty, what would life be? Gaudy designer apartments are the new food banks: they’re the place to be. There’s something about basking in the New York…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
Likely to end up my favourite of the year just by virtue of it beautifully blossoming in quality for me across multiple watches. Each of the five major sections (pre-titles, abu dhabi, rome, venice, train) are wonderful and rewarding in their own ways. I enjoy how the scene where he speaks fluent seamless Italian as a lawyer in Rome is almost comparable to an action setpiece of 4, 5, or 6 in the way that it seamlessly transitions into a…
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May December 2023
Everybody has been slapping “camp” all over this, which I can definitely accept because it’s pretty funny, but I also pretty quickly became morbidly rapt by the passive surreal fucked-up-ness of the situation they gradually construct. I know Portman is definitely older than Melton in real life, but in one scene she specifically says they’re both 36 which lends so much to his bizarre repressed stuntedness. His face looks young, maybe partially because he’s most famous from a show purportedly about going to high school, whereas we’ve been around the block with Portman a few times. Looked great on 35. Haynes rules. Hayne and Gain
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Score: A Film Music Documentary 2016
When they give more screen time to the guy who scored minions than Hans Zimmer
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