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I am the sheep that god lost.

Murphy’s law.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

“What are we going to do, retire?”

For the majority mostly nonsense, this is extensively just an excessive montage of logistical hijinks, characters in boardrooms swapping silly spy jargon, and, of course, Cruise and McQuarrie's cooperative interest in the franchise's finale of mirroring the last ageing movie star having to rely on the old-world analogue tactics against a rogue Al combated in various ways of putting tangible bodies on the line as a means of entertainment (went apeshit at all the various smoke and mirrors, biplanes, and ditching the gadgets, probably making this the most fundamentally physical Cruise pushes his body in the entire franchise). Naturally and probably unjustly seeing a lot of The Rise of Skywalker complexity comparisons circling the early word-of-mouth reactions in relation to its fan service and how it deals its hand at returning legacy characters, reliant on flashbacks perhaps, but never once thought it gets as sloppy or transparently lazy. Still, though, on his eighth and final round, it's just as technically impressive seeing a lunatic so committed to his role of the President of Movies that he's consistently putting his own mortality at risk for the pure love of movie-making.
Genuine audible cheering from the audience when
Hunt begins turning a lever in a decaying submarine that literally transcends the fourth wall break and begins manually changing the aspect ratio in the movie itself, no one’s doing it like him these days — I'm going to miss these.

[IMAX]

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

“I think this is about me.”

Critic sitting in row behind: What a brutally annoying piece of self-realism, individual creativity, forced importance, and monstrously egotistical, costly, and wankery anti-constructive piece of self-ment that frequently manifests itself as this generation's The Room or Freddy Got Fingered. This is terrible!

Me: What a brutally annoying piece of self-realism, individual creativity, forced importance, and monstrously egotistical, costly, and wankery anti-constructive piece of self-ment that frequently manifests itself as this generation's The Room or Freddy Got Fingered. This is amazing!

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Combating mental illness one karate kick at a time.

“You’re going to feel this.”

Overtly the weakest one in the series, but comfortably assumable this was the near-perfect genre merging Cruise and co. were aiming to achieve for the longest time purely based on its endgame execution of all the swooning romanticism, world-class dangerous globetrotting, and tech-fetish jargon that makes it easy to counteract any logistical challenges or baseline plotting. Went completely ape shit at the wind turbine helicopter chase once again and when the movie threatened to go all Marx Brothers mode on the visual trickery of double Hoffman, good movie.

Frequently meat-headed and overtly bruiser-esque despite its novelistically slick digital smearing action and chase sequencing. A large handful of plotlines and set pieces can be traced back to this being Evan’s Robocop.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

“Grinning like an idiot every 15 minutes.”

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

“I like incongruity.“

“What are you?”
“What am I? I’m a human being.”

Man is the warmest place to bite. It's easy to look at this on its exterior from plotting alone and label this as Coogler's From Dusk till Dawn, it’s appropriate and fitting, but honestly, this goes so much further in its own enveloped, scorching images, neo-western environments, spiritual connectivity, grappling with family trauma, repression, reputation and brutal decaying textures that it's ostensibly Coogler's Near Dark, sometimes even taking large swings to become his folklore incarnation of The Shining. I genuinely couldn't tell you the last time I was having an out-of-body/levitating-out-of-my-chair experience purely executed by its choices on selective editing, cross-fading, hard-cut transitioning, and sound design alone, get ready for some the chunkiest and wettest noises you’ll likely hear from a new release. It looks and feels like one of the most dangerous and unsafe spaces; lots of communication is channelled between soulful, mournful blues melodies and talking about eating pussy. This is as cathartic as it is mean before it even reaches its neck-biting and rotting, flesh-tearing. Getting to witness Hailee Steinfeld spit in a mouth mid-sex scene warrants the IMAX theatrical experience alone. Not to be too hyperbolic, it might be the genre film of the decade so far, and as a filmmaker, it’s probably not even Coogler’s best. Masterful. 

[IMAX]

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

The wet and grotesque medical and economic horror dramas are told within the confines of boardrooms, suits, and partnerships. Curating a double bill of this and Spielberg’s Jaws as two white-knuckled genre pieces making me fearful of water.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

The last legs in the west.

“Must be weird not having anyone cum on you.”

Completely forgot that this is the best movie; it fluently expresses all the heightened cartoon extremities of Verhoeven fashion through a constant strip club melancholy of working-class detail, showmanship, and the technical craft of bodies as expressionistic machines of art and money makers. Simultaneously mimics the classy MGM technicolour influence completely reworked as one of the most lizard-brained, physical acted, and technologically dynamic pieces of weird all-American and genuinely filthy pieces of high-budgeted euro trash, lost count at the endless number of sweaty skin and body fluids. Also, I cannot the last time a movie had this many god-tier sleazy line reads (“Man, everybody got AIDS and shit!”). Slots in perfectly as a miraculous bright light, breaking a leg, and the show must go on canon in amongst Fosse’s All That Jazz and Scorsese’s Casino. Dancing isn't fucking, right? Don’t think it’s his best (which is really saying something) but this this might be Verhoeven’s most impressive body of work.

Full discussion coming soon to my podcast, NO INTERMISSIONS.

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

“There's a clinical name for what he has, I think it's...”
“Drowning.”

I don’t need to waste time and state the obvious but it must be said that this is still cemented as just genuinely one of the sharpest, most engaging and meanest blockbuster machines in the American movie wheelhouse and only on this rewatch self-confirmed this is probably the closest Spielberg ever got to the crowd pleaser Hitchcock thriller. Pretty unbelievable from front-to-back, meticulously edited and scored (that pier scene really stood out this time around, god tier Williams), cosmically life-altering, as witty as it comes, very wet and such; the first time I got to witness it in the big movie house, getting swept up in all the textures, details and natural details that I’ve never noticed before, shooting star image literally made me very emotional. Not to mention, first time seeing Quint brutally stabbing the shark in the face as he’s going down, just the best. Never not impressed on how simple yet immaculate the vibes get in the later stages too; getting your boys together, sinking beers, comparing wounds, and singing only for the projected soul-cause of hunting a giant man-eating monster, happy to confirm the “bigger boat” line read digests just as smoothly as it most likely did back in ‘75. Movies will rarely get this good again; can you believe a 26-year-old made this?

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“I love violence.”

One of the rare movies that triggers an unhealthy amount of endorphins into my brain purely and posses me to begin anomalistically screaming on its gross plasticity and innocent nonsensicalness. Couldn’t imagine another blockbuster since dedicating this much of its budget to expensive pyrotechnic work and obnoxious ugliness. Shame this was the last one, but I’m gladly content. Bay got to pack all the egotistical, lizard-brained shit into this one; I genuinely got emotional on that bozo slow-motion reveal of Mark Wahlberg saving his robot friend with his retractable robot sword. Awesome. We never deserved these movies, probably some of the most memorable acting against animation since Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?  And, honestly, it would make a mean double bill with Boorman’s Excalibur. That Nazi reveal is still one of the craziest things that I maybe think about too much.

“Shit bricks!”

Maybe found this less inherently interesting than The Beekeeper narratively (less so Ayer’s John Wick and more so Ayer’s Taken) but easily compensates itself with being overtly more tactile and lizard-brained (the way Statham delivers a fuck you to a villain at one point is drowning his breakfast in excessive syrup). Genuinely going to have a hard time finding logistical faults with a movie that commits this whole-heartedly to the blue-collar, working-class detail in action sequencing, incredible use of sledgehammers, buckets, and even a bag of cement. A new dad canon staple, I legitimately could not tell you the last time a third act was this barbarically hilarious; the final line and shot made my theatre round of applause; all in all, a 120 minute piece of evidence proving movies are a beautiful thing.

I’m a disco guy.

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Children are man at his strongest. I cant kill the world.

Full discussion coming soon to my podcast, NO INTERMISSIONS.

How fragile we are,
How fragile we are.

DEEP SEARCH

Sincerely one of the most mechanical, whimsy-covered pieces of kinetic comedy that constantly reminds you of the crushing reality of loneliness, importance and belonging. Honestly, I don’t think it’s asking too much to want to devote my lifetime to sea exploration, hiring unpaid interns, David Bowie-narrated sequencing, and matching caps and speedos. I couldn’t tell you the last time I smiled this hard front to back for an entire runtime of a movie. Legitimately one of the greatest gag per minute victory lap movies until it hits with that tear inducing group submarine image. “Son of a bitch, I'm sick of these dolphins.”

[35mm]

Two TV producers were the only ones brave enough to attempt Blue Sky’s Robots, a handful of 80s’ Spielberg material and Malcolm X for their main draw of inspiration for this $320 million nothingness. Completely lost my mind at the archival Clinton footage in the opening prologue; how do these Russos seem to be getting worse and worse?

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

“You to get to me, me to get to you.”

The ultimate Soderbergh and Koepp approach on the complexities and commitment of the crumbling paranoid wife guy mindset, maybe the sleekest and sexiest spy text since Campbell’s Casino Royale or le Carré’s handful of thriller novels. Pierce Brosnan’s best ing campaign starts now. Made me miss my grandpa a lot, wish he were alive to see this.

The blood is the life. Narratively may not have the most cathartic, emotional meat on its bones, but it more than makes up for it with its dedication to it’s imposing gothic architecture and inky macabre. Will always go apeshit once my guy Dracula transforms into a vorticistic bat. Insane down bad vibes in this one.

Jaume Collet-Serra‘s Phone Booth.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

“Why are you crying?”
“Because I just heard a song on the radio that reminded of me of the way we were.”
“What was it?”
“The Way We Were.”

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

sorted alphabetically.

• 28 Days Later
• Akira
• American Gigolo
• American Psycho
• Army of Darkness
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Bad Boys II
• Basic Instinct
• Batman Returns
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

...plus 123 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every movie covered on my double feature podcast, NO INTERMISSIONS.

• Heat
• Superman
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• The Raid
• Mission: Impossible
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Pinocchio
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Star Wars

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Ferrari
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. The Killer
4. Knock at the Cabin
5. Oppenheimer
6. Master Gardener
7. Infinity Pool
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. Thanksgiving
10. The Boy and the Heron

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

🎶when logic and proportion
have fallen sloppy dead,
and the white knight is talking backwards
and the red queen’s “off with her head!”🎶

1. Licorice Pizza
2. The Matrix Resurrections
3. Old
4. Zack Snyder's Justice League
5. West Side Story
6. Dune
7. The Last Duel
8. No Time to Die
9. Malignant
10. Pig

1. Trap
2. Juror #2
3. Megalopolis
4. Anora
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Challengers
7. I Saw the TV Glow
8. Birdeater
9. Red Rooms
10. In a Violent Nature

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The first movie i started each year with!

2021: Blade Runner (1982)
2022: Silence (2016)
2023: Inception (2010)
2024: Pinocchio (1940)
2025: The Godfather (1972)

• Blade Runner
• Silence
• Inception
• Pinocchio
• The Godfather

• Akira
• The Batman
• Belly
• Casino Royale
• The Dark Knight
• The Empty Man
• Femme Fatale
• Mad Max
• The Matrix
• Miami Vice

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Con Air
• Armageddon
• End of Days

top 10 of the year episode here.

1. Nope
2. Avatar: The Way of Water
3. Barbarian
4. Ambulance
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. The Batman
7. The Northman
8. Crimes of the Future
9. Mad God
10. RRR

let the past die.

1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2. Good Time
3. John Wick: Chapter 2
4. Brawl in Cell Block 99
5. Dunkirk
6. Super Dark Times
7. Alien: Covenant
8. Blade Runner 2049
9. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

1. Uncut Gems
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Marriage Story
4. The Irishman
5. Too Old to Die Young
6. 6 Underground
7. Alita: Battle Angel
8. Ad Astra
9. Gemini Man
10. Us

1. The House That Jack Built
2. Under the Silver Lake
3. Den of Thieves
4. Overlord
5. Burning
6. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
7. A Star Is Born
8. Hereditary
9. Aquaman
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

the first year of the rest of our lives.

1. Possessor
2. Tenet
3. The Empty Man
4. The Invisible Man
5. Another Round
6. Sound of Metal