I'm extremely proud to have worked on this movie as producer, for my fellow team of producers who cared for the project, for director/writer Parker Brennon making their debut feature film, for all of the hard and grueling work put in by our crew , for the dedicated on-screen performances from our cast, and for everyone who ed this movie over its two+ years of development.
After three big screen viewings (Los Angeles, London, and last night in Chicago), it's…
This is my 4,000th logged film on Letterboxd. I'd like to thank the Academy.
I wanted to make sure that #4,000 was a big movie, and Sátántangó is nothing if not big.
Translated as literally "Satan's tango," Béla Tarr's 7 hour and 19 minute (multi) marathon of a film is a punishing, brutal experience. It's filled to the brim with nihilism, despair, and disgust of the state of humankind, and Tarr wants this film to make the viewer feel the…
I don't have much to add to my prior review of this movie Mission: Impossible 2 (to which I've actually warmed), but, honestly, it's much closer to M:I2 than it is a 3-star rating.
JJ Abrams is just so bad at doing cinematic action scenes: the onshore wind turbine field, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and the climactic fist fights are all so poorly…
We know this movie is nowadays widely regarded as the worst installment in the thirty-year franchise. However, it must also be ed that in 2000, it was *very* popular and absolutely crushed the box office. And there’s reason for that! Tom Cruise is peak Millennium Tom Cruise, the narrative structure works for a piece of action escapism, and this is where the franchise begins fully embracing and pursuing its grand ambition of trailblazing Stunt Cinema; a gesture that is symbolically…
Second watch.
I know people love this, and I’m happy they do. After my first watch, I gave the movie a 3, as I think I was taken aback by the shock & awe ambition of it. But upon reflection over the months, while I knew I didn’t love it, I realized I actually didn’t even “like” it. A 3 was too generous, and certainly not the film’s floor (a friend of mine and ardent of this movie made sure…
Prologue: I saw a pre-screening of this with some friends from the Alternate Ending community at a dine-in brew pub theater in Madison, Wisconsin, for which I drove 140 minutes to attend. The experience was easily 5/5.
And in honor of this new super-long Batman movie, I'll now write a lengthy review of it.
So, to the length: The Batman is longer than my drive from Chicago to Madison, and *only* 100 minutes shorter than the…
