TIFF '24 Viewing #11
Sean Baker, the indie king that you are. You did it again.
Anora is a giant departure from the organic observatory style of Sean Baker, and although it may look cleaner and more packed with style, that natural flow and essence of a Baker movie are still at the heart of Anora. Baker turns up the comedy more than he ever has, unleashing this wild situational narrative that underneath all the bubbly spirit and chaos in…
Happy 3 year anniversary to my favourite comic book movie of all-time. Changed my life. I'll never shut up about this movie. A bona-fide masterpiece.
I guess the journey was about the friends and marmalade we made along the way.
I missed Sally Hawkins in this. Still ever so sweet and full of whimsy even if it doesn't quite hit the sweet spot of the last 2, it still makes a grown man like me cry and have my heart swell up with so much warmth, and most of all make me want to be a better man.
Margot Robbie dancing to Vodoo Mama with her viscously giving energy and watching her debut film in a theatre drenched in a red light is living proof that the Margot Robbie dancing and watching her own movie to see the reactions of the audience in a theatre cinematic universe walked in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood so it could soar in Babylon.
Babylon may have flopped in theatres all around the world but it's the highest selling movie of all-time in my heart. It just keeps getting better and better.
"May thy knife chip and shatter."
It's really hard to put something this special and this historical unfolding into an even greater history in the near future, right before our eyes, into perspective. Dune: Part 2 is a monumental science fiction endeavour operating on sheer will and power. An overpowering and generational viewing experience that needs to be seen with the masses. This is made by a visionary embodying the essence of that word. A visionary who has the utmost…
