So damn good. It's like Mission Impossible + Oceans 11 + Top Gun + amazingly shot sequences of fighter jets. Mr. Cruise delivers again (looking forward to the new MI next year!). I had a blast watching this in the largest screen possible in IMAX and I so wish I had time to see it …
Continue reading Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski – 2022) A
It's tough to recall much of any sort of arc to this one. I don't think it has one and that is fine. I saw it recently, but it took my maybe 4 tries to get through it. Definitely not my favorite of Tarkovsky's work (that would Stalker or Solaris) even if it is supposed …
Pusher 2 is all focus on Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) who just got out of prison, finds out that he apparently has a baby with a prostitute and we meet his dad who runs a crime operation from his mechanic shop. So P2 is a wonderful sweet feel-good family installment in the trilogy. Of course not! …
Unsettling and tough to watch. The story-telling and performances are excellent and I think they make the topic of the film more palatable to stick with. Jake Gyllenhaal is Tony plays an author and Amy Adams is his ex-wife Susan whom he sends his finally finished novel to read. The film alternates between the actual …
I actually started watching this thinking it was Linklater's other similarly animated film, Waking Life. I totally forgot he had two movies animated in this Rotoscope style. I had seen Waking Life over 15 years ago and I remember it was brilliant. Scanner Darkly is fine. It's based on a Phillip K. Dick story about …
Continue reading A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater – 2006) B-
It's a beautifully made crisp haunting black and white dream. Did I love it? Not really I don't think, but I really enjoyed watching it, seeing these halls of a big Chateaux, hearing the slow monotone narration, watching these attractive actors exchange brief conversations, looks and share walks in the manicured garden as I am …
Continue reading Last Year at Marienbad (Alan Resnais – 1961) B+
Hyper and fast. It's a week or so in the life of a low-level drug dealer who messes up a deal and now he is trying desperately to find money from somewhere anywhere so that he can live another day. It's like hanging with real-life versions of Vincent and Jules from Pulp Fiction. I say …
The music, the opening long shot of the open patio door, the escalating tension all remind me of Hitchcock. I liked it despite of what I'm about to type next. It mostly works as a simple breaking and entry film (hey! no one was supposed to be home!) that escalates but it does not really …
The mixing of horror and race commentary is a very good combo. One of the best is Jordan Peele's Get Out. Master is playing in a similar field with the setting being an elite east coast private college. It's a movie that I liked a lot more when I was watching it and thought it …
Slow burn Japanese film. Based on a short story by one of my favorite authors (Murakami). It's about artists, theatre, the making of a play, grief and marital relationships. Catnip to me.
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