It has really been a while since I was last at an AMC! Some films I learned about during the thirty minutes of trailers are: a GHOSTBUSTERS sequel; a QUIET PLACE prequel; a MAD MAX: FURY ROAD prequel qua spinoff; a DEADPOOL sequel that is also an entry into the Wolverine substratum of the X-MEN franchise; GODZILLA x KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, a dual crossover sequel to both KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) and GODZILLA: KING OF MONSTERS (2019); TWISTERS,…

I was beaming throughout! To me, the Platonic ideal* of a Rohmer film.

*In its leveraging of Rohmerian conversation sequences—everyone confidently presenting their ideas of love in the first act—to expose the chasm between theory / practice & ideal / pragmatically-resolved truth; in other words, to interrogate an archetypically Rohmerian way of being. I loved watching everything dramatically unspool and these sweet, deluded characters try to render their desires judicious and legible to themselves and others. An amazing depiction of the dialectic…