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The fact that parts of RESURRECTION made me feel lost speaks to Gan as a magician. Answers lie in the emotional truths of dream logic. There is no cinema without the collective participation of being present in a space at a fixed moment in time. I can’t wait to see it again.
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The fact that parts of RESURRECTION made me feel lost speaks to Gan as a magician. Answers lie in the emotional truths of dream logic. There is no cinema without the collective participation of being present in a space at a fixed moment in time. I can’t wait to see it again.
RESURRECTION - Bi Gan presents the soul of cinema as the dreams we were born to visualize. I was blown away by the aesthetic splendor of the form’s history through six states of imagination. There are so many soul-stirring images I haven’t been able to shake.
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
RESURRECTION - Bi Gan presents the soul of cinema as the dreams we were born to visualize. I was blown away by the aesthetic splendor of the form’s history through six states of imagination. There are so many soul-stirring images I haven’t been able to shake.
I can’t stop thinking about this moment where we see Tommila slicing into something we can’t see, then it’s revealed over a half hour later where and WHAT he carved into himself and reader, I cackled. He’s on his way to looking like Caviezel in the PASSION by the end of this.
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I can’t stop thinking about this moment where we see Tommila slicing into something we can’t see, then it’s revealed over a half hour later where and WHAT he carved into himself and reader, I cackled. He’s on his way to looking like Caviezel in the PASSION by the end of this.
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE - Another rip-roaring exercise in LOONEY TUNES carnage against a band of Soviets. It’s basically one long chase movie that finds new ways to top its own absurdity. Jorma Tommila has such an incredible pissed-off face. Surprisingly sweet ending!
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE - Another rip-roaring exercise in LOONEY TUNES carnage against a band of Soviets. It’s basically one long chase movie that finds new ways to top its own absurdity. Jorma Tommila has such an incredible pissed-off face. Surprisingly sweet ending!
Eddie Redmayne is actually at the perfect level for this performance. An obscenely spoiled capitalist brat that’s really just a temperamental mama’s boy. There’s a face he makes after caressing Kunis’ cheek that’s fucking insane.
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Eddie Redmayne is actually at the perfect level for this performance. An obscenely spoiled capitalist brat that’s really just a temperamental mama’s boy. There’s a face he makes after caressing Kunis’ cheek that’s fucking insane.
The romanticism at the center of JUPITER ASCENDING gives this movie a soul that elevates its goofier bits. Jupiter just wants to be recognized as a Queen and fly through the city with her dog man boyfriend on his Rocket boots and frankly, I get it. Looks fun as hell.
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The romanticism at the center of JUPITER ASCENDING gives this movie a soul that elevates its goofier bits. Jupiter just wants to be recognized as a Queen and fly through the city with her dog man boyfriend on his Rocket boots and frankly, I get it. Looks fun as hell.
JUPITER ASCENDING (35MM) - I love this now? The Wachowski Sisters take such a sincere approach to their big pulpy space opera that evokes everything from Frank Herbert to FLASH GORDON. It’s silly and endearingly so. There’s also a literal elephant man. @alexxkittle.bsky.social ftw!
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
JUPITER ASCENDING (35MM) - I love this now? The Wachowski Sisters take such a sincere approach to their big pulpy space opera that evokes everything from Frank Herbert to FLASH GORDON. It’s silly and endearingly so. There’s also a literal elephant man. @alexxkittle.bsky.social ftw!
Therefore it’s even more impressive that Tommy Lee Jones is as likable as he is, in spite of threatening to derail every inch of progress. Cat and mouse movies are so much goddamn fun.
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Therefore it’s even more impressive that Tommy Lee Jones is as likable as he is, in spite of threatening to derail every inch of progress. Cat and mouse movies are so much goddamn fun.
THE FUGITIVE (35MM) - Its no wonder this became a cable mainstay. The kind of insanely well-directed thriller where a phone call or database search is as exciting, if not more so, than something like the waterfall confrontation. Ford latches onto every moment of air and so do we.
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
THE FUGITIVE (35MM) - Its no wonder this became a cable mainstay. The kind of insanely well-directed thriller where a phone call or database search is as exciting, if not more so, than something like the waterfall confrontation. Ford latches onto every moment of air and so do we.
THE UNTOUCHABLES (35MM) - First time! DePalma and Mamet channeling their bloodlust in ways that complement the other (external pulp vs. internal power fantasy). The result is a helluva fun piece of violent blockbuster fluff set to the legendary Ennio Morricone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
THE UNTOUCHABLES (35MM) - First time! DePalma and Mamet channeling their bloodlust in ways that complement the other (external pulp vs. internal power fantasy). The result is a helluva fun piece of violent blockbuster fluff set to the legendary Ennio Morricone.
It all comes back around.
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It all comes back around.
I was fascinated by the potential queer subtext between Highway and Stitch within a hotbed of homophobia, but couldn’t make anything meaningful reads. Bit difficult to do when Mario Van Peebles is in such broad comic relief mode that he hardly feels like a person.
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I was fascinated by the potential queer subtext between Highway and Stitch within a hotbed of homophobia, but couldn’t make anything meaningful reads. Bit difficult to do when Mario Van Peebles is in such broad comic relief mode that he hardly feels like a person.
I feel largely indifferent to the men in Gunny Highway’s patrol in their developments or motivations. Hardly seems like they break out of this spirited summer camp demeanor, especially during the Grenada invasion. It’s so funny that FULL METAL JACKET came out the following year.
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I feel largely indifferent to the men in Gunny Highway’s patrol in their developments or motivations. Hardly seems like they break out of this spirited summer camp demeanor, especially during the Grenada invasion. It’s so funny that FULL METAL JACKET came out the following year.
HEARTBREAK RIDGE - I thought I would come around this time, but sadly this kind of military machismo still just doesn’t work for me. Eastwood’s colorful insult grab bag only does so much to elevate a movie that I think feels sluggish and slight on account of the Malpaso style.
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
HEARTBREAK RIDGE - I thought I would come around this time, but sadly this kind of military machismo still just doesn’t work for me. Eastwood’s colorful insult grab bag only does so much to elevate a movie that I think feels sluggish and slight on account of the Malpaso style.
KING OF THE MONSTERS - The kind of appalling bastardization of a genre titan that amounts to little more than underwritten fan fiction. The nerve to mostly omit America’s complicity in Godzilla’s creation to give grace to Raymond Burr would be laughable if it weren’t so tedious.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
KING OF THE MONSTERS - The kind of appalling bastardization of a genre titan that amounts to little more than underwritten fan fiction. The nerve to mostly omit America’s complicity in Godzilla’s creation to give grace to Raymond Burr would be laughable if it weren’t so tedious.
I loved the few brief scenes with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a trigger-happy local cop itching to feel important. Laughed really at this one shot where he looks like Beavis.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I loved the few brief scenes with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a trigger-happy local cop itching to feel important. Laughed really at this one shot where he looks like Beavis.
I fell hard for the wintery milieu of this small NE town that feels so lived in. Everyone has their own way of conversing with one another whether it be watching TV in bars, playing strip poker or stealing snowblowers. The sentimentality in NOBODY’S FOOL is always honest.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I fell hard for the wintery milieu of this small NE town that feels so lived in. Everyone has their own way of conversing with one another whether it be watching TV in bars, playing strip poker or stealing snowblowers. The sentimentality in NOBODY’S FOOL is always honest.
NOBODY’S FOOL (35MM) - There’s a really touching thread about the effects of generational trauma and how it’s not too late to course correct. At its heart though, this is a such a cozy little movie with Paul Newman exuding laughs, tenderness and the right amount of melancholy.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NOBODY’S FOOL (35MM) - There’s a really touching thread about the effects of generational trauma and how it’s not too late to course correct. At its heart though, this is a such a cozy little movie with Paul Newman exuding laughs, tenderness and the right amount of melancholy.
SISU - Is it not enough to revel in Jorma Tommila turning a bunch of nazis into mulch? The seemingly impenetrable pissed-off old man revenge spree boiled down to its bare essentials. It’s like a storybook legend but with more mine explosions and head shots.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
SISU - Is it not enough to revel in Jorma Tommila turning a bunch of nazis into mulch? The seemingly impenetrable pissed-off old man revenge spree boiled down to its bare essentials. It’s like a storybook legend but with more mine explosions and head shots.
An effective drama requires balance, which is difficult when every comically telegraphed omen trips over the other to make your heart sink. It’s all so overwrought that the film’s big denouement sank like a stone for me. Shame! I wanted to like this.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
An effective drama requires balance, which is difficult when every comically telegraphed omen trips over the other to make your heart sink. It’s all so overwrought that the film’s big denouement sank like a stone for me. Shame! I wanted to like this.
HAMNET - Wasn’t taken at all by Chloé Zhao’s latest, a nuclear grade weepie in which its thinly-written characters are solely defined by their tragedy. A often distant camera discovers intimacy at the first sight of tears, and it gets so exhausting.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
HAMNET - Wasn’t taken at all by Chloé Zhao’s latest, a nuclear grade weepie in which its thinly-written characters are solely defined by their tragedy. A often distant camera discovers intimacy at the first sight of tears, and it gets so exhausting.
I knew I was going to love this the moment Jennifer Lawrence started stalking through the grass on all fours with a knife in her hand. There’s a controlled chaos in her animalistic rhythm that’s simultaneously sexy, anxiety-inducing and cathartic.
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I knew I was going to love this the moment Jennifer Lawrence started stalking through the grass on all fours with a knife in her hand. There’s a controlled chaos in her animalistic rhythm that’s simultaneously sexy, anxiety-inducing and cathartic.
DIE MY LOVE - Gripped by Lynne Ramsay’s darkly funny and often startling psychodrama about the intensity of feeling stuck. Actualizes those intrusive thoughts we store away. Jennifer Lawrence’s physical performance here is riveting, as is Robert Pattinson’s mess of a husband.
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
DIE MY LOVE - Gripped by Lynne Ramsay’s darkly funny and often startling psychodrama about the intensity of feeling stuck. Actualizes those intrusive thoughts we store away. Jennifer Lawrence’s physical performance here is riveting, as is Robert Pattinson’s mess of a husband.
