Speed Racer | Directed by Lana and Lily Wachowski (2008)

Juno (2007)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

TL;DR: Do I recommend it? > Definitely yes. Whether or not you watched the original, yes. But if you loved the original, then most emphatically, yes.

The long of it:

Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: Joseph Kosinski Writer: Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie Music: Lorne Balfe, Hans Zimmer, Lady Gaga, Harold Faltermeyer Cast: Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly Runtime: 130 minutes IMDB | RottenTomatoes | Official Site

Watched: at the cinema on May 29th, and in IMAX on June 7th

Reaction: ± What an amazing film! It's both homage and an excellent sequel while being able to be a really great standalone movie at the same time. The story was moving, the characters were compelling, and the action sequences super exciting. The film was narratively sound from a continuation perspective and as a self-contained film. There was, i think, a perfect balance of same and new, of 80s and present. Balance also of comedic and serious. Then watching it in IMAX was a treat, a visual spectacle that i appreciate far more than many other "made for IMAX" kinds of films.

Memorable aspect of the movie: + Action and the practical filming they did for the acrobatic sequences. It really lends the edge of reality and tension which makes watching the flight sequences so edge of your seat compelling. + Casting. First of all, bringing back Tom Cruise AND Val Kilmer. Then Miles Teller as Goose's son? There's something about him (partially costume and make up probably) that harkens back to Anthony Edwards' Goose. + Story. I mean, it better have been since that's what Tom Cruise was waiting for before agreeing to do a sequel. + Acting. The relationships. + The funeral scene. T_T - Was it really necessary to bring down a platform with 2 jets just to act as an elevator for Maverick? :))) I'm sure there could've been a more practical way to do this. + The dogfights. + The romantic subplot. I really appreciated it especially in light of how forced and jarring the one in the original film was.

@danielhowell, thanks for making a show that's equal parts devastatingly hilarious and achingly poignant 🖤🧡

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THE BATMAN

released march 4, 2022

director: matt reeves

cinematographer: greig fraser

composer: michael giacchino

starring: robert pattinson, paul dano, zoë kravitz, andy serkis, jeffrey wright, colin farrell

run time: 2h 56m

— everyone, and i mean EVERYONE needs to say thank you sofia coppola for creating a respectful biopic and actually asking for priscilla presley's consent to make this incredible film. movie of the decade i predict.

Pearl 🩸🪓

just saw something lgbt

WATCHED IN 2023: I don't know if you got a great look at this neighborhood, but it's not—I don't think you should be sitting out there by yourself this late.

BARBARIAN (2022) DIR. ZACH CREGGER

i love you, kit tanthalos ∞

happy (late) birthday nope

Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Directed by Taika Waititi (2016)

watched Bullet train over the weekend and uhhh suffice to say I liked it so wanted to draw my fave 🍊

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses, to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of himself, which threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse. They seek help from Wanda the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.

TL;DR: Do I recommend it? > Hellz yeah.

The long of it:

Studio: Marvel Studios Director: Sam Raimi Writer: Michael Waldron Music: Danny Elfman Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Rachel McAdams Runtime: 126 minutes IMDB | RottenTomatoes | Official Site

Watched: at the cinema on February 27th

Reaction: ± That was an amazing ride. Without giving too much away... I didn't at all expect it to go genre film but it went and it fully committed and it was fantastic! Sam Raimi went full camp in parts and deep and excellently executed horror. The sound design and the music bites were aces. The visuals were horrific and excellently done. Wanda and the versions of Strange were super cool and creepy. Universe 838 was uh-MAY-ZING.

Memorable aspect of the movie: + Acting. Writing. Character drive and development. The continuity of the character stories from project to project, especially Wanda Maximoff and Stephen Strange. + The visuals. Costumes, art design, visual effects, make up, coloration. And the jump sequence. + The music, the use of sound, of silence. + The vision, the direction, and the execution. So good. + The concept and adaptation of so many comic book universes and the avenues explored by the MCU. The cameos <3 - Universe 616. Nooo, why'd you guys make it confusing. Now there's a comic 616 and a cinematic 616. D:

[spoilers for nope (2022) ahead]

it’s been a couple days since we saw Nope and Oh My God I Cannot Stop Thinking About Jean Jacket. it’s a ufo. it’s an alien. it’s a force of nature. it’s an animal. a wild animal. a hungry, territorial, untameable predator. it’s a spectacle. an object of attention, obsession. an exploited show pony. a must-see event. with its gigantic screen-shaped eye it in itself IS a horror movie, a theater of billowing, constricting curtains and played back screams. it’s the viewed. it’s the Viewers. it’s the lens of the camera watching, capturing the image, of a black man on a horse. it’s an eye. it’s a mouth. it’s both, good god, it’s both. it ravenously consumes all who looks upon it and all it looks upon in return. it’s the perfect kind of movie monster that we as an audience are so horrified to look at, but the monster, in so many ways, is also us. it’s just us. we’re looking at a reflection, and it startles us, scares us. just like lucky at the beginning of the movie.

and it’s just fantastic.

i think we should talk more about the sound design in the batman (2022)

specifically in this scene