Watched HERE on a plane to Albany. The trailer for this film peaked my curiosity and it seemed like a good one to knock out on a flight. I was particularly interested by the film’s approach to capture a singular camera angle for the entirety of a film and intrigued by the pedigree of the Tom Hanks and Robin Wright duo. I learned after that Robert Zemeckis was also the director of Forrest Gump. HERE didn’t really live up to…
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10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
Took awhile on a Friday night to arrive at 10 Cloverfield Lane. Ultimately, I am glad I watched this film and I understand its popularity and place in the cultural zeitgeist. John Goodman logs a performance you can’t tear your eyes from and the premise is compelling and puts in work to be unpredictable. The audience is taken alongside Michelle through a back and forth of uncertainty culminating in a few different nightmares.
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Dune 2021
My desert. My Arrakis. My Dune. I have a confession @Matt Santola, I lied to you and watched this on HBO last week. Then I went and saw it in IMAX again last night, and I am so damn glad I did. It was just an incredible and immersive bodily experience. I need to make a list of movies that are MUST SEE in IMAX, and this one might top the list. Everything is a spectacle and the scale that…
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Donnie Darko 2001
Psychologically impactful, thought provoking and generally well acted. Watched Donnie Darko with my buddy Carson this passed week in Raleigh. I think he’d claim this film to be one of his favorite movies. I get the appeal, it’s a fresh feeling story, albeit with a slightly convoluted plot, but an early Jake Gyllenhaal performance that was an initial glimpse at his talent. Wow does Jake look like a baby in this movie!
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