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Interstellar 2014
This is the absolutely laziest form of film commentary but that doesn’t make it any less true that this hits way harder watching it as a parent compared to watching it prior to having kids. My reaction then was “neat, but hokey.” Today, “doesn’t quite nail the dismount, but tonally perfect.”
And it eerily presaged so much of the decadence conversation!
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Trap 2024
The only thing more bonkers than casting your daughter as the T Swift stand-in at whose concert an FBI profiler is sure she will catch a serial killer is casting Hayley Mills (?!?!) as that FBI profiler - I swear I was waiting for the twist to be she had a twin who was going to factor in at some point
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
I’m generally not a huge anti-spoiler guy, but one reason to avoid them is so you can watch this and then at the end go “oh…so *that’s* why it’s called ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’!”
It wouldn’t be Tarantino without the gratuitous violence packed into the last 20 minutes, which feels a little misplaced, but otherwise might be my favorite Tarantino? At least provisionally? The performances he gets out of Pitt and DiCaprio are both so good, Robbie is effervescent,…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023
The most fun on the Orient Express since Agatha Christie!
At this point, the M:I films are basically delivery devices for shots of Tom Cruise running across various landmarks on multiple continents and dreaming up ever-more elaborate ways he can try to risk death in order to entertain us. And entertain us he does!
A multi-layered stakeout in the Abu Dhabi airport is exactly what the M:I series has come to promise and deliver, a fight sequence in Venice has…
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