Matt Reeves Rewatch Season (Part 5):
Matt Reeves is a filmmaker I greatly admire, and The Batman is easily his greatest film yet. In a world where the average superhero movie looks like muddy concrete, complete with unfinished CGI and severely lacking in nuance or creative vision, The Batman stands out as something more. Something greater. The Batman is what all Comic-Book Movies should strive to be. It operates on a completely different level than anything we've seen before; more…
Jon Favreau's Iron Man is a true miracle of a movie. Plagued with various script changes, a stressful shooting period, and above all a cast and crew that didn't know if it would be received as a smash hit or a box office bomb. Marvel took a gamble with Iron Man, and that's what made it successful in the first place. It made me care about a character I'd never even heard of and would go on to love for…
I absolutely loved this film as a kid, but I kind of expected it not to hold up that well considering how much my knowledge of film has evolved since the last time I saw it. To my suprise though it's still really great and was far in a way the best of the YA craze of it's time. I still thinks it rules and it's way better directed than most people give it credit for especially when you consider…
I originally wasn't going to write a review for this one but there's so much I want to talk about that I probably don't have the words to get my point across but let's give it a try anyway.
Let's talk about Damien Chazelle for a minute. He's easily one of my favourite filmmakers working today and I've still yet to see a film from him that I didn't really enjoy. La La Land and Whiplash are both modern classics…
If you follow me or take a look at my profile, you will notice I am not one to give many ratings above 4/5 stars. This is due to the fact that I believe a separation must be made between great films and truly extraordinary ones. Sometimes even I think I'm being too harsh on a film or that I've rated it too low, despite the general consensus. However, a few times a year, we're treated to a film so…
