Well.... that was devastating.

Waves is bold. It's assertive, it's ambitious, it picks you up and drowns you in its grief and sorrow. It's a psychologically intense & kinetic character study of two entirely different characters, deliberately shifting the perspective at the mid-point to accentuate how trauma affects beyond a single person. I love it when films use or play with unconventional aspect ratios to visually represent something (The Grand Budapest Hotel, IToET, Saltburn, Andrea Arnold films, even the recent Sinners)…

"Our daughter has been abducted by one of these beige lunatics!"

In the span of less than two weeks, I've visited The Florida Project, Spirited Away, and now this. Totally unintentional. OK, maybe a little bit.

The year is 1965, and two "troubled", misfit teenagers have just run away on a sentimental romantic adventure. Moonrise Kingdom is a melancholic & emotionally stirring ode to the fleeting, often fragile nature of first love, brimming with planimetric compositions, elaborate set designs, & an overall…

"That was the last sunrise I ever saw. Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me."

A hot new bombshell enters the juke t.

We won. More importantly, Ryan Coogler wins again, only this time it's major. I have a tendency to watch movies after the initial hype dies down, but after I saw the trailer last September, I couldn't help myself. Sinners is a highly ambitious & daunting 2hr+ long film that blends four major genres (music/southern gothic/vampire/supernatural…