The cinematic event of the year. A passion project for the ages. Fascinating, distinctive, stylistic. Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus. From his dreams to our screens, he brings us Megalopolis, a film forty years in the making, and a film that will live on for many decades to come. All of Coppola’s money and mastery invested into the climax of his brilliant career. A film as intriguing as it is divisive.
An absolute marvel to look at, and similar to…
One aspect of Miyazaki’s films that he never fails on is his extraordinary world-building. Worlds that are so rich and fascinating, and I would give anything to live in (most of) his worlds. He always creates some of the most beautiful and unparalleled hand-drawn animation to ever exist, vast shots of valleys and humongous clouds or grand air battles and high-speed train chases, he never fails to get us immediately immersed into his infinitely detailed worlds. Another thing he does…
Aquaman is a very strange and conflicting film for me that has so much going for it, but drags itself down with some really poor qualities. Laughably bad dialogue and acting that just doesn’t fit the grand mythological scale that it’s going for. A mythology that could be quite interesting, but ultimately is not with a stupid and silly script, including a boring plot and some throw-away characters like Black Manta. I never felt the significance of the threat or…
I had a really good time with this! I last watched this almost 2 years ago now, and I was truthfully half expecting my rating of it to drop, but that is not the case at all. It’s still as gripping and entertaining as I remembered. Probably the closest Scorsese has gotten to a horror, and that element makes some of the best parts of the film. A truly underappreciated film amongst Scorsese rankings, at least as far as what…
A 2020s DreamWorks animated sequel that had absolutely no right being as good as it is. In this day and age, you do not get that very often, but this is genuinely one of the best looking and most stylistic animated movies in the past decade. It’s so intricate and masterfully made, and it has a few awesome anime-looking fight scenes and some of those dissolves in silhouettes are actually crazy to look at.
At times, it can be quite…
