preston

12/19/16

1. Everybody Wants Some!!!
2. La La Land
3. The Handmaiden
4. O.J. Made in America
5. Captain America: Civil War
6. Right Now, Wrong Then
7. 10 Cloverfield Lane
8. Love & Friendship
9. Elle
10. After the Storm
11. Your Name
12. Pete's Dragon
13. Looking: The Movie
14. Green Room
15. Things to Come
16. Sing Street
17. Hell or High…

12/19/16

12/9/16

I feel like the scene that's more "pure holiday loneliness" in this film is this devastating one, although it's kind of thematically linked to the article; now that Frank truly has nowhere and no home to turn to anymore, he gets back to Carl.

12/5/16

Toy Story 2 and 3

12/2/16

If it means anything, the emphasis is less on gore (a few seconds here and there would make it easily PG-13) but on evasion and quick-thinking. It has more in common with tight space thrillers like Green Room and Don't Breathe in term of where it derives its thrills from than from the sight of zombies (although they…

12/1/16

Be warned though; I rather disliked the overripe melodrama in it (it's not the nicely modulated over-the-top kind like in Bong Joon Ho's films), but the zombie section is SO GOOD. Those parts are the best action film of the year; so creative, fun, exciting, and with clever characters for a change.

11/18/16

My least favorite Potter-verse film, to my surprise as a fan (note that I still mildly like Columbus' entries; true that the direction can't compare to later ones, but they still stick to the stellar stories of the books). This magical world is still enchanting enough to get lost in, but it seems like without the…

11/11/16

I have seen the film but not quite get your spoiler thing. Is it the name of that thing the man was hit with at the end?

11/4/16

I used to be so annoyed, but now wish he would have gone back to that instead of becoming this gimmick.

11/3/16

Probably. It's just been stated multiple times, usually in reviews where people don't like a reviewer and/or disagree with the reviews but wanting easy targets.

11/3/16

?? A review and its headline are not written by the same people.

11/2/16

Yep, I'm also partial to the wave after wave of zombies running after the lone train car (that is also used in the trailer).

11/2/16

Really middling origin story, which seems like it rushes way fast past Strange's story nuance and characterization to get to training montages (which are goofy in all the best way, almost manga-like) and trippy, amazing visuals. At least those images also force the action to be more focused, so the fight scenes are…

11/2/16

Gratingly over-the-top, over-acted melodrama, but the zombie action is so worth it, all-timer stuff.

10/27/16

BUT DON'T YOU KNOW SHE STILL WON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT HER CREATION HARRY POTTER GOD SHE'S BASICALLY GEORGE LUCAS NOW UGH

10/21/16

I feel like that's a Whedon thing more than a MCU thing. (Still amazed though because back then I thought "sudden, emotional character death" would be one of the last trademarks he would brought along with)

10/21/16

Anti-Dowd sentiment is becoming as tiresome as anti-Kristen Stewart, especially when most is just vague antagonism without any real objection, AND especially if it's still based on that shitty 2013 summer movie season he started out with.

9/14/16

I understand the intent, but that was so unnecessarily antagonistic I was taken aback. I followed Dowd on twitter and letterboxd so I knew this, but for the record, I don't think he and Iggy owe it to anyone to have people know this like I do (schedules at festivals tend to change on a day-by-day basis anyway). I'd…

9/13/16

Um, AA Dowd just saw it in the last 24 hours (and it's his favorite of the fest so far) so I assume it's gonna go up in the next one. Why the weirdly antagonistic leap to conclusion when it's just busy festival schedule (especially for a hot ticket like this that is having people getting shut out multiple times now)