1.43:1 IMAX, dual-laser 4K, the works. Only 16 theaters playing it in the format worldwide, but— to echo the voices of many— really The Version of the film. Hope the Blu/4K Blu includes it, even rather than a 16x9 IMAX-cropping. The height, the grandeur, the scope is the most captivating protagonist onscreen! The grain of Nolan's 70mm IMAX immerses in a rich, textural reality; the newly-certified digital-1.43 of "Dune" immerses in a fantasia beyond reality, an arch hi-def opera of…

Have spent two and a half months in a hectic and Not Particularly Great! life-whirlwind, but felt the calling to jot something down for this, as it's so synergistically hectic & whirlwind-y itself.

Mostly, I'm just bamboozled now at the click-cycle the sequel had a few weeks ago when it was announced it would have a 90-minute runtime, folks clamoring over a follow-up being twenty minutes shorter than its predecessor. Because "Venom" is ""'""112 minutes""""" long, but—in a Trumpian, Reality Is…

**Working my way through the selections of Hammer's filmography newly available on KOW Berlin's website. My ability to critically parse experimental filmmaking is undoubtedly even-more laughable than my ability to parse the non-experimental, so no star-ratings. Also, despite one logging, assume I watched any and all of these at least twice.**

Incredibly sweet, but already a hair heartbreaking. The playfulness of the Roman-numerals completing the short's title (and, by proxy, the common-phrase) is a welcome touch of levity in packaging…

**Working my way through the selections of Hammer's filmography newly available on KOW Berlin's website. My ability to critically parse experimental filmmaking is undoubtedly even-more laughable than my ability to parse the non-experimental, so no star-ratings. Also, despite one logging, assume I watched any and all of these at least twice.**

More frenetic, confrontational than the first two viewed. Perhaps the thrashing "Death" throes of the "Marriage" at-hand. Boundaries, intact and broken. The confinement of designated territory, the in-the-moment freedom/"limitless"-horizon…