Letterboxd Review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
I'm so angry that I missed this one on the big screen. I feel like Denis Villeneuve must have sat down and had a Captain America instructional film playing that said, "So, you&#…
I'm so angry that I missed this one on the big screen. I feel like Denis Villeneuve must have sat down and had a Captain America instructional film playing that said, "So, you&#…
Yeah, this is fun. Especially a second viewing, when you don't have the red pen in hand and your "IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH FOR STAR WARS???!!!" game face on. It's exactly wh…
What can be said that hasn't already been said about this Marvel Giant-Size issue come to the big screen? It's a struggle to not just head back to reviews of 2012's first Ave…
I'll never question Steven Spielberg's ability to take a book with serious problems and turn it into a thrilling piece of popcorn cinema. I mean, Jaws was a terrible novel and …
I'm still reeling from the realization that Ridley Scott is capable of such a dramatic spectrum of quality. He's a filmmaker who makes masterpieces, and also makes some hot garba…
Unable to watch the 90th Academy Awards this last Sunday due to technical difficulties, I settled for watching the Best Picture winner of the 89th, and I wasn't disappointed. In a ca…
Edgar Wright has always been a master of choreography, but when every gunshot and every gearshift in the film is as perfectly synchronized to the insanely specific soundtrack, oh and sa…
I'm not going to make some shitty quip about how the title of this film is more accurate than its creators probably intended, yuk-yuk, fart-noise. But I will say that Wain, Colton, …
Shared cinematic universes don't work unless they come together organically. Trying to make one good film with the partial blueprints of an eight-film series is folly, pure and simp…
Among the several things that I planned out for 2017, including this blog site and the return of the Media Sandwich podcast, I made it my mission to watch all of the James Bond films so…
Detective stories these days tend to settle in one of two very distinct camps: the ones where the crime and the suspects and the modus operandi take center stage, and the more hardboiled…
I'm not really into Christmas movies that revolve around a community, or that include a hefty amount of schmaltz regarding the spirit of giving, etc. It all always seemed so cynical…
Let's get it out of the way: I really enjoyed The Last Jedi . I think it addresses a lot of the valid gripes that fans had with The Force Awakens, and it takes the series into ne…
It's arrived, and it seemed to hit cinemas with more a contemplative growl than a boastful "MY MAN!" shouted into the swirling CGI skies. And the bottom line is, it's...…
While some films set about a complicated chess game of rising tension, this movie is appropriately a little more punk rock than that; it's not the arrangement of the notes, but rather…