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★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Nov 2021
It’s always nice to catch one of your top 20 on the big screen for the first time.
What I picked up on this viewing is how the film never really endorses Graysmith’s point of view. It follows him, it hears him out but it never gives in.
I’ve read up enough about the case to know that while it probably was Allen, there is, as with all of the suspects, PLENTY of evidence pointing towards innocence as much as it does guilt.
We’re never going to know for sure.
But some people sure love talking about it.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jan 2020
I fall in love with this more and more with every viewing.
Movies don’t get much better than this.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jan 2020
First movie of the year. First movie of the decade. First movie of the life, really.
I honestly never thought something could challenge JFK as my favorite movie, but here we are.
It’s what it is.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Feb 2019
For the record, the only way to view this movie is by walking 30 minutes to a theater at midnight in a light drizzle of rain.
Still so fuckin good. The textures, mood, music, all of it man.
There’s no practical reason for them to bring Jones along but goddamn it does he not give the best performance. The lack of concern in his eyes seeing a dude ripped apart by the xenomorph is something you just can’t teach. What an icon.
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★★★★½ Watched 14 Dec 2019
Sin is a wound, not a stain.
Wow. This movie is terrific.
Despite being a borderline hater of organized religion, I always seem to gravitate towards art that addresses faith. My favorite band, U2, is for all intents and purposes a christian rock band so despite my best efforts to push it away, spirituality comes and finds me.
The Two Popes is unexpectedly about that struggle. Who God chooses to speak to or not, and what he says to those…
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Nicolas Cage does the following things in this movie.
1. Makes a battle axe.
2. Snorts a giant pile of cocaine off a piece of broken glass.
3. Squeezes a guy’s head so hard his eye pops out and he dies.
4. Lites a cigarette off the burning head of a person he just decapitated.
5. Gets in a chainsaw fight.
So I guess it goes without saying that this movie is incredible.
And also very, very weird. I don’t…
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Hello from the other side, I must have texted a thousand times
One part of Maureen is in the daylight. She bikes from store to store and takes train rides to pick up the perfect outfit for her supermodel employer.
In the other part, she's fumbling around in the dark, looking for whatever closure she can get, knowing deep down that time is running out.
Personal Shopper is a film about life, death and what happens when you get stuck in between.
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Probably Cumberbatch’s best work to date.
While I admire the film, it’s not the kind that will stick with me very long.
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Now THIS is how you do a psychological thriller about class disparity. Bong making Todd Phillips look more like, dare I say, a clown?
Parasite is really really great. Fabulous performances, sharp humor and a deep understanding of it’s themes elevates this past it’s already ingenious premise into something more biting and thrilling than I was prepared for.
Snowpiercer is still my go to, but this makes me want to dive even deeper into Bong’s movies.
Rating would be higher,…
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As expected, Adam Driver is the most intriguing part of this movie.
Duh, right? Over the last 4 years he's established himself as the actor of his generation. But this time, it's what happened off screen more than on that makes him so irresistible.
Driver is a war veteran. He enlisted in the Marines shortly after 9/11. Almost 20 years later, here he is starring in a movie about mistakes made during that time and the people who made those…
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Some sequences are neat and it’s photographed beautifully buuuuuut overall this was a bit of a slog to get though. Not really my speed!
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2020 - RANKED
Adding this to my long-gestating film thesis that just because you (Lovecraft) did it first doesn’t mean you did it better (Annihilation).
Recognizing that this is an adaptation of a book by a genre director, I’m not saying it *should* have been as good as Alex Garland’s masterwork, but I can see where he and author Jeff VanderMeer got a lot of their inspiration from. Thing crashes to earth, alters the environment, and hilarity ensues.
Garland and…
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