In my obit I hope they mention that my love of cinema started when as a teenager I played a drinking game set to the movie Troll 2
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Moneyball 2011
This movie plays so many little narrative tricks on you. Can’t believe it’s as good as it is. Finding the communal spirit of team sports in something as impersonal as science and data analysis - that is not an easy storytelling case to make. Its most famous line is deployed twice, with decidedly different subtexts underlining it. That’s the trick. It does it again and again. Pretty incredible.
she beaning on my billy til my money ball
In 35mm at The Music Box
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Anora 2024
Still very intrigued by this movies politics and what it has to say about agency. Still very torn on the depiction of the Igor character.
I have no idea how this movie won a Screenplay Oscar. This movie’s main feature is it seems like it has no screenplay. To that end, I’m not really sure how this movie won an Editing Oscar. Its momentum comes crashing to a halt during the scene at the house and never fully recovers. I’m…
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The Brutalist 2024
A painting, a portrait - a moving picture, in the truest sense. A movie that insists upon its own greatness, and - for the most part - earns it. Not an epic in the way it’s being discussed and marketed. A much, much smaller-scale film than you may expect. A singular character study, whose central figure is quite clearly a stand-in for his director who so clearly wants to communicate just how hard it is to make anything in our…
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Bringing Out the Dead 1999
Marty you son of a bitch you did it again
Need to know why he never worked with Cage again. Absolute best use of his particular talents I’ve ever seen
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