I don't remember the last time I saw the same film twice on the big screen in one weekend. That should show how much I LOVE this movie!
"Everything Everywhere All At Once" is not only my favorite film of the year so far, it might be my favorite of the decade. How can I describe it?.....think "The Matrix" mixed with the surreal experience of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and the existentialist topics and absurd humor of "The…
Up until this point, Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse was my favorite comic book movie of all time. It revolutionized superhero movies as well as animation in general. Many animated films now are creating their own stylistic look that is not only gorgeous and inventive but also appropriate for the story that it is telling. We really have the first Spiderverse to thank for that.
Now we have the sequel, Across the Spiderverse and..... this movie does the impossible. It is…
How often do you see a sequel to a film you thought was okay come out over a decade later and not only surprise you by being superior to the original in every way but may also be one of your favorite films of the past couple of years?
For many, that movie this year might be Top Gun: Maverick. For me, it is Puss In Boots The Last Wish. This film was AMAZING! It's deep, It's beautifully animated, It's…
I had my concerns that a 4th John Wick film was going to feel stale. Instead, this movie shows us that some franchises just get better and better.
John Wick Chapter 4 is the best installment in the franchise so far and quite possibly one of the greatest action films made in the past decade. It seemed like an impossible task to keep this franchise going strong after four films but this movie stands above its predecessors thanks to its…
I'll be honest, I didn't have much interest in seeing this film at first. I enjoyed Part One, but I wasn't as in love with it as much as a lot of other people were. That was mainly because I never read the original book and the first part to me felt like episode 1 of a sci-fi tv show that was given a bigger budget and extended to two and a half hours. I decided to watch Part Two…
Excessive world-building and characterization is being explored entirely through visual storytelling, symbolism, and glorious action sequences. The more I see it, the more I love it.
George Miller is a genius, no denying.
One of my favorite films of all time.
Although The Lego Movie is a highly acclaimed film, it is not one that you'll see on a lot of peoples best films list. This is an honest favorite of mine because it manages to have just about everything that I love in a movie and it uses those elements to great effect.
* Meta-commentary and social satire
* A meta-modernist aesthetic.
* It takes a familiar concept and makes it something incredibly creative, outlandish, fun, but also brilliant and…
George Miller continues to prove he is one of the most brilliant and uniquely versatile directors working today with "Furiosa". I am amazed how films like this can be made. Miller manages to paint the most vivid portrait of the world he created over 40 years ago and I don’t know how he does it. The planning that goes into the staging, the design work, and the amount of detail is unreal. I never went to film school but if…
Pixar has managed to make a sequel that is even deeper, more mature, and more complex than one of their best works! This is what a sequel should do! It picks up right where it left off and takes the next logical step. As a result, we get the best sequel Pixar has made since Toy Story 2!
It even fixes the one problem I had with the first film. As much as I love the original, I did have…
I don't see cinema as a means to escape reality. Cinema is art and you can do anything with art. You can make an abstract arthouse film, a pure entertainment action flick, an absurdist piece that will make you question the very nature of your existence, and more.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is one of the best examples of what art can accomplish. Everything that can possibly be done with cinema is achieved in this one movie. For that,…
Cocaine Bear was, no joke, one of my most anticipated films of the year. Before the trailers came out, I already knew about the true story of Pablo Eskobear (aka Cocaine Bear). When I heard that Phil Lord & Chris Miller were going to produce a film based on this story, I thought that was a perfect match. A very manic and insane story should be in the hands of guys who make very manic and insane movies.
When I first…