This is probably what it must've felt like watching The Two Towers or The Return of the King in the theaters twenty or so years ago. There are only so few films that feel like they carry that kind of epic magnitude, and Dune: Part Two is one of them.
Immersive and expansive are definitely words that will be thrown around a lot, much like the first film, but the immense scale and rumbling sound of the sequel are so…
Is it time for me to play Valorant again?
Some time last year, I was lucky enough to check something off my bucket list – seeing a first cut of a movie way before it actually hit the theaters. Obviously, GG back then was extremely bare, just a general storyline stitched together to make it comprehensible. When you get to see a film at its rawest state, two things happen. First, you get to see how much fun the cast…
When you think Westerns, you think pure gunslinging and violence in the Wild, Wild West. And you think Clint Eastwood. That's what makes Unforgiven surprising. It takes the quintessential Spaghetti Western star and places him into the body of William Munny, a pacified myth of a killer who can barely get on his own horse. Enter Gene Hackman’s (RIP) Little Bill Daggett, who at first seems like an aging peacemaker struggling to build his house, but hides a ruthless streak.…
This is why you should never go into business with your friends.
Bong Joon-Ho returns with a black comedy in Mickey 17. It's not Parasite, but Mickey 17 is a little more accessible and mainstream. Robert Pattinson does everything as all the Mickeys. Each iteration is distinct, and carries his own humor and depth. We meet the meek and disoriented Mickey 17, abandoned and presumed dead, but somehow, he makes it back to HQ only to come face to face…
A dark and polished portrait of a period burdened with the pitfalls that accompany prosperity, Killers of the Flower Moon is Scorsese still at the top of his filmmaking game. It's an epic story he gets to tell in the way he wants to. Every scene and every decision in its whopping 206-minute run time matters to make the Osage Nation just as much of a character as the three leads, all of whom were immensely portrayed by Leo, De…
Film is truly the art form that can, not only transport us into the time of a devastating explosion's creation, but also wrap us in the cognitive dissonance and stress of the man behind it. Oppenheimer feels like a culmination of Christopher Nolan's massive body of work – converging time, full-scale production, immersive sound (this was particularly a huge highlight thanks to Ludwig Göransson), gripping tension and internal conflict. Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. were mind-blowing.
