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Doctor Strange 2016
The entirety of this fucker played on mute on TNT on a gigantic screen directly in front of me while I was playing poker, and I'm counting that as a watch goddamnit. For the first while, I would occasionally glance up and think "geez, when did Benedict Cumberbatch start doing so many commercials?" because no part of what I saw appeared to be a creative work made by an artist who put in any effort to the extent that I…
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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
Rose Glass is 2 for 2. Loved how much her horror chops from Saint Maud still show through even though this one isn't a horror film (I mean, it has its moments!)
I need Katy O'Brian to headline her own John Wick-esque action franchise immediately
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
I have only given two movies released in the last five years 5-star reviews: The Irishman and now this. Scorsese already made his case for the title of the greatest filmmaker of all time long ago, and he's spending his elder years doing victory laps. I already want to watch it again and again
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Electrocuting an Elephant 1903
They showed this shit in my film school. Not because it's important to film history or anything (it isn't), but to show how dangerous electricity is. As if anyone needed that explained to them by being forced to watch an elephant die in agony for no reason. Fuck that teacher and fuck Thomas Edison. And fuck Ronald Reagan too-- I'm pretty sure he didn't have anything to do with this but fuck him regardless.