I never want to leave without saying I love you.
There's a moment early on in Master Gardener where Joel Edgerton's Narvel Roth (what a name) tells his apprentices to take their gloves off, grab a fistful of dirt, bring it to their face, and breathe in its scent, adding that it's okay to get messy. Roth's lesson is that all the past evils done to the land still linger in the soil; fertilizer, waste, rot. But it has been…
When you were eleven, what did you see yourself doing now?
Memory expressed as it is, scattershot, emphasizing every moment that wouldn’t make it into a traditional film. Lingering silences, cloudy reflections, naps by a pool, playing a board game, singing karaoke, or dancing to David Bowie; these are the moments that mean the world to us. Tiny vignettes of time spent together are what we have to make sense of those who mean the most to us. And when…
An explosion of fluid pop-art so astonishing that it’s impossible to fully absorb in one sitting. Across the Spiderverse further embraces visual expression as a core pillar of its story. We see dozens of animation styles layered on top of each other in ways that simply haven’t been done before. Instead of a cheap coat of paint, each look establishes a clear sense of space and time for our characters, embellishing emotion and narrative tension. Gwen’s scenes with her dad took my…
Anyways, it’s about old friends.
Love is late-night Casablanca convos. Museum walks. Park strolls. Long drives. Sweater shopping sprees. Game nights. Spontaneous karaoke. Warm shoulders. Fresh Kleenex. Quiet goodbyes. Silent suffering. Crinkled brows. Tearful embraces. Confetti baths. And chocolate sauce on the side. Love is what you make it.
If your travel ad isn’t critiquing capitalist classism and questioning the nature of humanity then I don’t want it.
I challenge Netflix to let David Prior make what ever he wants for the rest of time.
