Dan Trachtenberg goes from the guy who hit the reset button on the Predator franchise grounding it back to the thrill of the hunt of the first three films after The Predator went a bit off the rails (but I still enjoy it!), to now becoming a mixture between a Dave Filoni lore master and the Christopher McQuarrie of Predator.
Each individual segment is a lot of fun, basically since that fateful June weekend in 1987 the imagination of audiences…
A beautifully whisky soaked Vegas fairy tale love story. The Cooler feels like the most gritty and grimy casino movie outside of the Martin Scorsese epic. Shot in a constant cigarette haze, with Alec Baldwin's commitment to maintaining the old ways it feels like a real glimpse into the world of the Vegas that has a reputation as a degenerate hell.
It makes for a wonderful juxtaposition with William H. Macy's loveable shlub loser and his love story with Maria…
Rocky II might be the most meta movie in existence, because the actual story of the film is literally about Stallone being forced to make Rocky II. That sadly leaves it kind of forgotten in the pantheon of the series and that's a shame since this is such an absolutely worthy sequel to the first.
Firstly it once again feels like a real street level character drama, Rocky, much like Stallone got famous overnight, and so it's about the ramifications…
For the fourth time in a row Denis Villeneuve crafts one of the great science fiction epics of our time and for the fourth time in a row it’s far too goddamn much for me to comprehend in a single viewing. Every single frame and line of dialogue is full of so much texture, depth and detail, there’s so much to unpack, I only truly feel locked into Part One recently after a third viewing but I suspect there’s so…
