Joe Mazzulla on talking to Thelonious Monk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mxP5c55h8A
Last time I was at the Jazz Kitchen (great local jazz club/restaurant) I was seated up front and to the side, where I had a great view of the pianist's hands and now it's the only place I ever want to sit for a jazz show. This movie spends a lot of time on the pianist side, so that's pretty cool.
It gets too plot-invested later on but during the Powerhouse and Farmer Jim segments I was levitating. This is what Looney Tunes movies always should have been.
-Making a visual spectacle that's mostly pretty ugly and frequently incomprehensible is self-defeating behavior. The other Ant-Man movies look good! But they thrive on playing with a recognizable world. There are a couple bits early on where the Quantum Realm delivers on the promise, then the movie settles into a muddled mess. It's telling that the only action that's remotely compelling is a totally unnoteworthy generic punch-out, but you can at least tell what's happening in it and there's emotional…
It's wack that the schedule just happened to work out that one of the best Phase 4/5 (I refuse to differentiate between those two. They are the same to me) movies is going to be saddled with a reputation as The First Flop of the post-Avengers era. It's 10 minutes too short instead of 40 minutes too long! Iman Vellani is crushing it! The whole Khan family is delivering heart and humor! There's a great action sequence! They visit an…
