Scorcese directs these incredible movies I have next to nothing to say about. When I saw Killers of the Flower Moon, it was the same story. As in, literally, on an abstract level, the two narratives are very similar: based-on-a-true-story period pieces about an abusive criminal husband with a likable face surrounded by worse monsters.
Most of the interest and appeal here is on a technical level; the structure, the cinematography, the mood. It's like a shepherd's tone, constantly escalating…
"And then the funniest thing happened."
It's funny how you can scroll through the reviews of Inside on this site, and every single positive review feels like it was written by the dumbest person alive. SO true bestie! He is literally me! This is so real! I was almost as excited to see this film as I was to see J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakening, and boy, in either case, I wasn't disappointed! OMG I cried!
Because the…
Liam Gallagher is to this movie what Einstein was to Oppenheimer.
Better Man is undeniable. It's the first film to lose one Robbillion dollars. And you know what, I need more films like this, spaffing away god knows how much money in service of a story for no-one, a star going supernova, so that in the future, when we're squatting in the cavernous, leaking halls of our bankrupt cineplexes, we'll at least have something to fucking talk about.
I don't…
I'm swearing off Marvel movies, and I'm swearing off Shawn Levy movies, and I'm swearing off anything with Ryan Reynolds in it, and I'm swearing off multiverse movies, and I'm swearing off superhero movies, and I'm swearing off movies.
Deadpool & Wolverine is a lot like a comedy script reading written to be performed by whichever random group of voice actors happen to be attending a particular convention. The plot is a thin excuse to bring together the characters they played,…
