Love is … going from being acquaintances in the alleyway smoke break to being jealous when the cool cop lights her cigarette as you arrive late; love is running into each other awkwardly at the same 7-11; love is the intoxication of sending and receiving banal texts; changing your phone provider to his but getting rebuffed because it’s too committal; love is taking your time while rushing in helplessly; love is in the things we’re too shy to say out…
-
-
-
You Hurt My Feelings 2023
Loved it - laugh out loud funny, moving, GREAT premise, everyone was likeable. Nicole Holofcener is the Taylor swift of movies
-
-
Showing Up 2022
Portrait of an artist without hot water. Very slow, but also very rewarding, to watch an angsty Michelle Williams struggle with showing up, opening up, and letting go. A great, cathartic ending as well.
-
-
Raining in the Mountain 1979
Somehow, King Hu has managed to combine: aesthetics of water and ink painting + Chinese opera score + wuxia/heist/comedy + gorgeous Buddhist temple setting + contemplations on power and desire.
-
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
my favourite tom cruise is sultry french tom, second favourite is italian lawyer tom.
everyone in this movie has impeccable sprinting form. honestly it's more visually satisfying than the CGI/stunts.
solid friday night watch, i do feel like these blockbuster action movies only make sense on the big screen.
-
-
-
-
City Hall 2020
Wiseman says, ‘I like to show competent people trying to do a good job,’ and that out of 7 well run US city governments he emailed about filming, only Boston said yes.
This is an extremely rare, and thus valuable glimpse into how the giant machinery that is government works. I think the question is always, who are the decision makers actually accountable to (the answer is never just ‘the public’), and how does that shape their competing priorities (maintaining…