as much as it was an lockheed martin / us navy advertisement, this action movie also lingered with me in a way a movie hasn’t since puberty. whatever energy that made me put on my too-small karate uniform and dance around with a broomstick pretending i was luke skywalker after watching A New Hope as a kid is in this movie too: It’s tactile, tangible, gripping. Even as a 23-yr-old man with two half-masters degrees, I rolled the windows down…
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Moon Knight 2022
just like Everything Everywhere All at Once ruins Dr Strange Multiverse of Madness, Legion on Hulu ruins Moon Knight
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Tenet 2020
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Craft: I'm not an expert here, but I'm glad that there were some really clear color/lighting choices that helped the reader track with the inertia of the piece. Likewise, choices between inward and outward zoom and jump cuts helped the movie flow, as long as the viewer was willing to wait out not knowing what was going on 100% of the time. Nolan keeps the viewer hooked regardless because, like the viewers, the Protagonist also has little idea…Translated from by -
A Dim Valley 2020
A Dim Valley definitely lives up to the Art Nouveau vibe its poster suggests. There's a gentleness to this movie that is unnerving at first, but the viewer is allowed to be part of this film, allowed to see and be seen.
Craft: Love the active role the forest plays in this— not only is the forest personified, but the forest plays a stage— it is a constant, not a backdrop, for movement, for revelation, for emotional and existential journeying.…
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