it’s on Blu-Ray as the “authentic cut”

It doesn’t fix it, but the recent director’s cut of Twixt is an interesting recutting of the film that I think cuts it into something a little more personal, even if it’s the least successful of the three, it’s my favorite for giving Val Kilmer his final leading role.

I adapted this as a stage play about a decade ago and it works worlds better in that setting. It’s also my only appearance on Wikipedia, so hooray!

Gotta mention The Ghost and the Darkness if you’re going to name-drop movies in response to Beast. Give Val his due!

I was ready to love this, but came away cold. Haven’t been this let down by a film I was so sure I was going to love in a long time. The Coen’s chilly distance, and ironic fatalism just didn’t suit Macbeth for me. I far and away preferred the Kurziel version.

All I want is for Werner to do the audiobook for his novel.

I definitely want to see it. I generally wait until a movie hits a streaming service before I watch it, because I already pay enough money for movies without adding to it with rentals. Which is why I still haven’t seen Minari, to see if I need to add it to my best of 2020 list...

Also haven’t seen West Side Story or In the Heights.

I still haven’t seen C’mon C’mon, Macbeth, Green Knight, French Dispatch, Titane, Drive My Car/Wheel of Fortune, Licorice Pizza, Red Rocket, Memoria, or Worst Person in the World. So my list is likely to change, but at the moment my top 15 are:

I have nightmares basically every night I go to sleep, so this was extremely my shit. I’ve almost a phobia of sleeping. Beautifully conceived nightmare imagery, haunting synths, and a great performance by Julia Sarah Stone. The love story felt tacked on, and I’m more ambivalent about the ending. The director made a…

Oh yea, that’s spot on. I was thinking more in the TV realm. I think Straight has settled into the role and the show (and books) demand less out of Holden as the rest of the crew (and ensemble) carry the water most of the time, so he can just sort of be, and not stretch himself.

I’m on pace to watch 400 movies this year. I think I’ve seen 2 in theatres? Honestly, outside of big, IMAX films in which the theatre represents a definitively better and different experience, I’m much happier at home with my 70" TV, saving the $30, and an extra hour plus going to the movies. Plus my dogs are way…

In college I was in a particularly drama-filled (the bad kind) production of “Cry of Players” which is a fictionalized account of early Shakespeare’s life. The handful of us who had our shit together would say “Good Luck, Macbeth” before every show to each other. Against all odds and curses, the production managed to…

I watched Hook right after Robin Williams died. I watched another one of his movies immediately after in order to find a better way to celebrate his life.

It’s killing me that Devs hasn’t received a physical release yet. Just a masterpiece show.

Same. I always pictured Timothy Olyphant as Holden. 

It kills me Val Kilmer isn’t/can’t be in this.

I still haven’t seen Amelie, Gosford Park, or Devil’s Backbone, so they could make my list in the future. But my current top 25: https://boxd.it/bHEMq

“Securing, in the process, a lock on its title as one of the maybe two best Spider-Man movies, period”

Paul WS Anderson is a mostly bad writer, but a good director. Up until his last movie or two where his editor changed and he’s embraced this dizzying, hyper-kinetic style, he’s always had a great sense of space and scale, and a distinguishable style. Soldier, Event Horizon, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 5, Pompeii,…