Watch, then read, unless you don't care about SPOILERS! I love to discuss character and story, which is often difficult to do without touching on specific scenes or a movie's ending.
Oh, how I really want to love this movie! The first Deadpool was revolutionary – ingenious, for fourth wall breaks, hilarity, and R-rated comic potential. Like with most things, it’s hard to ante-up on something so profound, and so Deadpool … Continued
I am loaded up and ready to go! Since we last spoke about Yorgos Lanthimos, I have traversed his filmography. The Lobster, what a hoot! Extremely original. The Killing of a Sacred Deer was not as visceral as I was … Continued
Twister… is not great. No, I’m sorry, but it’s not. Chasing twisters that subjectively pick up what they want, and the pang of a main character thinking the skies are personally against them, is silly 🤷♂️ I have a prediction … Continued
Luca Guadagnino has hit the mainstream! I had to chase down Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria in arthouses, and backtrack through DVDs and streaming to view his earlier work, but Challengers was everywhere a few months ago, from … Continued
Sometimes, it pays to be slow! The first short in this anthology was released by Netflix in 2023, and subsequently won Best Live Action Short Film at the Oscars, and I always really wanted to get to it. But since … Continued
People! I’m going to watch Unfrosted 🙌 Jerry Seinfeld has directed a movie; a satirical look at the invention of the pop tart 💁♂️ It begins with Edsel Kellogg III (Jim Gaffigan), and his company of Kellogg’s cereal is flying … Continued
I simply cannot go another second without this movie being watched 🧐 I refer to the first Rebel Moon as ‘$2-Shop Star Wars Toys: The Movie”, and it ended on a cliffhanger, with a Part 2 just around the corner. … Continued
It’s Pixar in the cinema, y’all! Yes, after I missed Elemental on the big screen last year, and after a spate of Pixar releases that went straight to Disney+ due to COVID-19, that lamp be bouncing across my cinema screen … Continued
In 2021, The Dry came out, and I think I reviewed it as part of a catch-up mini review experiment for that year. I thought it was solid, and rewatching it again recently, I like it a little bit more. … Continued
Hey, hey, hey, the Monkey Man’s here!” I swear to God, that’s a line from the first episode of Skins, where the character of Chris, walks into a party, with Dev Patel by his side. All this time, Skins fans … Continued