I’ve been eager to revisit this after Killers of the Flower Moon. Being only a few minutes longer, it’s interesting to see how Marty utilizes each film’s length and to what purpose.

Killers spends every available minute immersing you into a time and place that’s been both overlooked and underserved before now, using its final minutes to reckon with its own role in the tragedy-to-entertainment cycle. Irishman puts a character’s glory days and shopping of their own casket 50 years later…

Criterion Collection.

Now that it’s out on Criterion, I’ll take a break from this. I want to really build the anticipation before I watch it again in a few years, since I can already recite some scenes from memory lol.

Any clumsiness you can attribute to the first couple thirds, whether it be youthifying, the actors playing younger than they are, whatever, is overshadowed by that last hour.

That last damn hour. Good lord. I love it as your basic,…

I am that Harry Potter fan that unabashedly adores (most of) The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Cursed Child. It’s just me. A true party of one.

Every single minute Dumbledore’s on screen is magical here. Jude Law perfectly inhabits the character, bringing in some Harris, Gambon and book Dumbledore into his depiction of the character. He’s always been my favorite HP character, and this series has been time well spent with him so far.

On the opposite side of…

Let’s just say it’s no coincidence that the people who say this “isn’t Star Wars” have awful opinions of what Star Wars is supposed to be.

Where The Force Awakens excels in delivering the greatest hits, The Last Jedi is an album of new stuff, retaining classic story elements while showing the maturity that the 8th movie in a series should have. Addressing the war in Star Wars being one of the most controversial, along with the audaciousness of showing that…

Bumping this up to the Full Five, baby.

Should have done it in February but I was too drunk to remember.

I’m sure Dune will be fine and all, but for my money Blade Runner 2049 will remain Denis’s great sci-fi adaptation. 

But as good of a job he does directing (holy shit these #lewks) it’s Hampton Fancher and Michael Green’s script that really brings this home. Very few sequels justify their existence from a storytelling perspective, which makes me…