Wes Anderson = Houston Richard Linklater = Austin They're both great, but you don't have to like either. Personal preference is a personal thing and no other person should ever tell you that you as a person are totally wrong, even if you obviously are.
Crimes of the Future. David Cronenberg's return to body horror. 6/10 It's like Videodrome and eXistenZ thematically.
Licorice pizza was excellent. Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, and Richard Linklater are three of the finest directors working. No offense to anyone that doesn’t like their films as not everything can be a marvel movie…
Beast - Its a solid little animal attack thriller, it'd be much better if the script wasn't braindead. Idris Elda does a solid job to make it watchable even with all the dumb character decisions. It's only an hour and half and you'll probably forget about pretty quickly, mindless fun but The Ghost and the Darkness is a better blood thirsty lion film.... C+
Watched Licorice Pizza this weekend, it was good 7/10................binged the last season of Yellowstone , friggin awesome!! 9/10 Kevin Costner is the man but Jessica Kelly steals the show
Watched the new Elvis movie last night on HBO, and I was very surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It seems like it hasn't gotten very good reviews, and lots of criticism of Tom Hanks's Colonel Parker, but I thought the whole thing worked well. It's not strictly a biopic, has some fantasy-type stuff particularly in the beginning, but it really held my attention for the whole thing, two and a half hours' worth. Austin Butler as Elvis was fine, the rest of the cast did a good job, and the film editing especially in the first half of the movie was amazing. Gonna have to say this is a 9/10 for me. Not a perfect movie by any means, and kind of a stylized fantasy of Elvis's life, but fun to watch.
this was fantastic. Lance Mackey just passed away last week, this is a documentary about him from about 2015. 10/10
watched The Resistance Banker on Netflix last night, Dutch film about a Dutch banker who ran a black market underground bank to fund the Dutch resistance in WWII. Excellent film, if a bit oddly-paced during the first half of the film: it depicts them (the bankers) as almost giddy with their success early on in the war; later when resistance members start dying, things get more somber and to my mind, more realistic. So . . . not a perfect film, but still well worth watching. Maybe an 8.5 or 9 out of 10. The Netflix version I watched is dubbed; as dubbed films go, the dialogue, delivery etc. was adequate. I've had films where the dubbing was so bad I turned them off--I'd rather simply read English subtitles in those cases. anyway, here's the non-dubbed trailer.
See How They Run - 7/10 It had its moments but maybe not enough. Best bits are in the trailer. Saoirse Ronan is infinitely bangable, so there is that.
The Gray Man (Netflix) - Incomplete I made it to the third act aka the Big Boss Fight. I just could not go on. No investment in the characters. There was also a "love interest" that made no sense (unless it was part of a Big Reveal at the end???).
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 10/10 Rented it. Multiverse done right? The movie has multiple convoluted story arcs that all actually land at the end. Whoever wrote this is a real talent. No Hollywood Cookie Cutting here. I keep asking myself "Is this a cleverly disguised Chick Movie?" but kept watching it. Here is a review from The Critical Drinker: Spoiler
The Empty Man on HBO max, 8.3 out of 10: The Empty Man made me write this review. What a bizarre horror film. It left me with more questions than answers but that's a good thing in this case.
