This is just one of those movies I need every once in a while. In my head, there’s an edit that goes Chuck Berry - The Miracles - Marvin Gaye - Lesley Gore - The Beach Boys - The Supremes - James Brown and the Famous Flames - The Rolling Stones, runs under an hour and a half and is overwhelming in its excitement. But in the actual film, the performers I omitted provide necessary lulls and paint a more…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
Akira 1988
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Yes, it's a shame that plenty of good movies don't get the credit they deserve, but the ones that do get credit usually deserve it. Did Akira benefit from being easily digestible? Probably. Did it click with American kids raised on Transformers and Jem in a way that, say ... I don't know, Only Yesterday (sorry, I still haven't seen a whole lot of anime) couldn't have hoped to? Sure. But it didn't get to the top of the heap…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
-
Simon Birch 1998
This is some syrupy shit, man. But you know, sometimes you just want a lot of syrup poured all over your fucking pancakes.
Translated from by