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Don't Look Up 2021
A message to David Sirota: You are the co-writer of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie by an Academy Award-winning filmmaker that is currently the #1 movie on Netflix. You are living the dream. You don't need to be upset because some NPR critics think your movie is smug. You don't need to argue online with the haters all day about why you deserve respect for making a movie with good politics. Take the W.
On to the movie. The buzz around…
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The Beatles: Get Back 2021
It has been thrilling to see the conversation surrounding this on social media, to find I am not the only lover of this great band
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
I love being a terrible scumbag and going insane in the desert with my pals
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Zeros and Ones 2021
Nobody needed to make the definitive COVID movie but nonetheless amazed at how this manifests visual-aural sensations of 2020 — wandering empty streets, every meet-up a clandestine operation, failing to compartmentalize bits and pieces of information from a phone. Had almost no idea what was going on at any moment, kept thinking my TV was fucked up. Already seems a key text.
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Quantum of Solace 2008
This has aged well; Amalric in smarmy Polanski-mode, far less of the ZONE-OUT than other entries in the series and oddly prescient of the recent failed coup in Bolivia.
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The Old Guard 2020
In a week, somebody will ask me if I watched “that Netflix movie The Old Guard” and I will confidently and without malice say “No, I don’t think I know what that is.”
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In a Lonely Place 1950
Watched last week and forgot to add, looked at my phone a lot but got the gist
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The King of Staten Island 2020
I normally wouldn't give this movie a moment's notice, as Apatow's films are all-over for me, and I watched Pete Davidson's stand-up and found it unfunny and a little homophobic. But as we head into month four of a global pandemic, renting a 2.5 hour movie for $20 and drinking some take-out mason jars of beer from the bar around the corner doesn't seem like such a raw deal.
Anyway. For the first hour, I was genuinely surprised by how…
