“Sometimes I jump ahead in our life together, and I see a time near the end. I can predict the future, and everything is settled. And all our lovers and children and friends come back and are welcome. And we have large gatherings where everyone is laughing and playing games. I am older and I see things differently, and I finally understand you. I take care of your dresses, keeping them from dust and ghosts and time.”
PTA’s greatest. Alma stands endlessly, and I’ll never not be watching.
I get everyone’s point, this Adam McKay joint isn’t very subtle. Am I supposed to be surprised about that? Expected Movie 43-level bad vibes from this, and was left pleasantly surprised by DiCaprio bringing his A-game, Jonah Hill being rad as fuck, and The Don Timmy C getting his jig on with J Law. The editing is absolutely schizophrenic (and is a massive detractor) but you also just kind of have to admire the balls of the effort. Meryl Streep’s Madame President posing with…
I’m a failure. I never even finished school. I think about death too much. My brain is a prison. I’m getting fatter. My hair is too ginger in the sun. The 9-5 job I work is mindless. I’m estranged from my family. I’ve had addiction issues for ten years. They’re becoming a part of me. Just when I start to get clean, something sends me into relapse. I’m twenty-four but fifty seems imminent. I have spells of manic depression. Sometimes…
It's impossible for a movie to look better than this.
Where the rambling of an avid film student's critique usually starts with an infatuated commentary on the director, it's hard not to admit that the cinematography for Blade Runner 2049 is the dominant player. Roger Deakins is quite clearly an auteur in his own right, creating an extended universe of his own through the vibrancy of his lighting. Taking the steely blue pallet of Prisoners and merging it with the…
