I am clearly in my Taylor Russell era as, just days after Waves (2019), I inadvertently picked Bones and All (2022), which plays a starring role again! She must be popular as this is another Top 250 Most Fans entry!
Luca Guadagnino has a very artistic brain because all his films are riddled with imagery, metaphors and a helluva lot of love! He clearly has a schtick, and boy will he stick to it. Bones and All (2022) is incredibly…
Interestingly, my Top 250 Most Fans Journey is throwing up a lot of surprises at me; films I had not heard of before that have clearly endeared themselves to a significant chunk of people. Waves (2019) is one such example and seemed like a good one for a quiet Friday night!
I cried multiple times in the second half of this film, which is normally enough to go up to a 5/5. It is an incredible, flawless second act that…
We finally have Mickey 17 (2025) after many delays, and finally another film from Bong Joon-ho! This promises to be a whacky, fun time!
This is a whacky, fun time! Plot-wise, it is utterly incoherent with no sticking point for us to latch on to. It had all the classic Bong Joon-ho observations on class structure, and current politics, and immigration, and love, and death... it had a lot. But it didn't commit to any of them as a landing…
Oh my good lord. I mean, obviously, I didn't go into this expecting a masterpiece, nor even a good film, but I am not sure I was expecting anything quite so unbelievably bad.
Now, one of my biggest issues with this film is that there is promise, which I appreciate sounds like a weird criticism. There are some moments during the downtimes when some actual dialogue begins to progress things and set up some sort of meaningful overarching plot. Do…
