BFI screening for House of Dynamite. Great to see Kathryn Bigelow in person.

It’s amazing how Fallout improves upon the weaknesses of Westworld. (Lack of narrative momentum, humor, character depth, overly complicated back story/twists)

Fallout just blows away other blockbuster shows like House of the Dragon or The Last of Us in its craft.

It’s so tactile. CGI compositing blends so well with the location shoots and sets. It doesn’t have the weird flat lighting that plagues other shows.

Mickey 17 on Imax was great. No one does chaos like Bong Joon Ho

This guys plays two roles better than everyone on earth:

1. Nazi robot
2. A guy who looks like he is in control unraveling

The Agency is incredible. The best spy show I’ve ever watched? Refreshing to watch a show about spycraft after so many shows with everyone fighting like John Wick.

Wrath of Men feels like a volume of Criminal. Looks fantastic. One of the best crime films of the decade

Guy Ritchie has been on a special run. He has been making great genre films after another. Ritchie is making films with craft and personality that people miss.

I can’t emphasize enough how good these films look because colors really pop.

Wish the studios weren’t burying them.

Fede is a really good interviewer in the Ridley DGA podcast.

Fede asks Ridley if he had to keep only one of his films, which one he would keep. As usual, Ridley says all of them.

But he eventually answers… and it is heartbreaking.

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Very good DGA podcast with Ridley Scott and Fede Alvarez. Ridley gives a breakdown of his process, which is interesting given Mathieson’s baffling interview.

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Recent Ridley Scott interview

It’s crazy how you start your career with one of the best movies ever made.

Love the look of Gladiator 2 where scenes look like oil paintings

A bit mixed on Gladiator 2. Good not great. It has great elements like Rome as America, and Denzel, but feels more compromised than something as pure as The Last Duel and Napoleon.

BUT it looks unbelievably good. Has this unique oil painting look that looks like no other film.

I still think this is the best single issue of comics I’ve ever read.

No one does it like Ridley