“There probably wouldn’t have been a second date for the photogenic, Tinder-crossed lawless lovers of Melina Matsoukas’ debut feature, Queen & Slim, if the first one hadn’t . . . escalate[d] . . . into . . . 132 minutes . . . of . . . increasingly heated boning.”

I think Shults intends to be sending a message of love and unity. I think he saw Moonlight and desperately wants to be Barry Jenkins, but doesn’t actually know how to be Barry Jenkins (nevermind that he should want to be himself, because his other films showed much more promise than this one). In his clueless attempt…

Incorrect; none of these cars have spoilers.

That’s not a major change to you? Especially considering how much streaming stuff is either TV, or TV at heart?

I’ll wait for the sequel:  2Ford 2Ferarrious

“The film opens in the mid-’60s, with Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts), eldest grandson of the original Ford, angrily and somewhat impotently admonishing his workers to come up with new ideas.”

Good lord Driver has the most interesting face. He looks completely average/gawky one moment, then the angle changes and he’s breathtakingly handsome. He’s endlessly watchable.

Have you ever been to Paris? And if so, have you been to Sacre Couer?

Yeah, I know when I saw him play the soulful yet detached poet/busdriver in ‘Patterson’ I thought, “This is exactly like the unstable, insecure and short-tempered space warlock he played in the Star Wars films!”

This has pro-basque separatist undercurrents just oozing out of it

*sigh* Everything is and always has been political, stop pretending that just because a movie is about white people that it’s free of politics.

Is it true that once he gives away both his As, Ragnarok begins?

As someone who just survived an abusive marriage and a mind-busting divorce, I’m very excited to bawl my fricken eyes out to this.

Oh, neat. It’s going to destroy me, isn’t it?

“GRADE A” DOWD REVIEW ALERT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

I prefer the RFTT version myself for its hard rock breakdown (which Nirvana pretty much lifted for Aneurysm, right?) but the Ubu version is the one that got out in finished form as opposed to recordings that were in a vault for a while, I think.

The misquote of Yamamoto is a bit of soundbite to his actual feelings. Having trained and traveled at Annapolis as well as Harvard, Yamamoto was impressed by the sheer size, the standards of living, and the huge industrial capacity of the US. He is also attributed as saying that Japan could run wild for maybe 6 months…

“Doolittle’s long-range raid on the Japanese capital inspired Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, one of the greatest special effects films of the 1940s”

This looked like such Baby Boomer catnip that I literally lol’d at the trailer when Patrick Wilson said, “Washington is wrong!” and promptly got dirty looks from two old people sitting next to me in the theater, confirming every suspicion I had.

Its groggy and expansive midsection unfolds in a series of tenuously connected episodes...