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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
"Work with me, Sam. We'll show the world a better way forward."
Disheartening, squandered potential. Half entertaining. Bush and Reagan era jingoism endorsement.
The notable through-line of the admittedly mixed bag that was The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was:
Why would Sam Wilson, a black man, want to represent a symbol that historically discriminated against people who look like him?
Unfortunately, Brave New World is unwilling to explore this question beyond a brief toe dip into adjacent subject matter…
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The Brutalist 2024
Laaaaaaaate loggggggggg. Fell off the Letterboxd game 😔.
Yeah, this thing’s cool. Watching it with a bunch of your film nerd friends in a sold out 70mm auditorium is pretty sweet. It’s a novel film in the modern release landscape, and I commend it full stop for bringing back VISTAVISION.
First half rules, second half lost me a bit, felt a little disconnected from the empathy and energy of the former. Corbet brilliantly directs the performers the whole time and…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
“May thy knife chip, and shatter.”
Monumental.
Watched this in a fully sold out brand new dual laser IMAX theatre and it was an experience I won’t ever forget.
Dune: Part Two is one of the greatest science fiction films I’ve ever seen, and one of my favourite films, period. The introduction to the tragedy of House Atreides is realized beautifully. Villeneuve and Fraser are firing on all cylinders to marriage a grandiose epic story with stunning mosaics of Arrakis.…
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