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.

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.

We need more gonzo sci-fi from trans filmmakers!

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.

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.

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.

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.