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Moonrise Kingdom 2012
the worst thing my ex girlfriend ever did was ruin Black Hole Sun for me
some time before we got together, back when burning CDs was still kind of a thing, she burned me a CD of her favorite songs. Black Hole Sun was the second track. there was more of course, i dug it up for this review and it includes The Smiths and The Eagles and R.E.M. and The Cure, but it was always that second track that…
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005
an absolutely batshit insane movie, everything is too bright or too fake looking, there’s an entire sequence dedicated to Willy Wonka doing colonialism, Burton tries to teach a lesson about how being poor is good for the soul or something, and it’s one of the most outwardly sadistic kids movies ever made. a childhood classic
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Watchmen 2019
“I’m in every moment we were together... all at once.”
next level television, as deeply faithful to the source as you would hope and so, so much more. brilliantly uses iconography and tales of old and recontextualizes them into modern day struggles effortlessly. last few episodes transcend the medium. watching with my dad and getting live reactions was a hell of a time. Lindelof is our greatest living showrunner
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Adaptation. 2002
kaufman’s the only motherfucker who can turn writers block into a script, dramatize it, make fun of the fact he dramatized it, criticize himself, include meta-contextual commentary on the state of screenwriting in Hollywood all while being insanely hilarious and engaging all in one script
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