It can be cruel, poetic, or blind. But when it's denied, it's your violence you may find.
His signature cowl coalescing with the shadows, his boots washed clean by the pouring rain, his footsteps echoing in the dark. The Batman steps onto the screen, in his newest cinematic adaptation, aptly titled The Batman. And while the reboots for the caped crusader are admittedly incessant, I assure you, The Batman is cinematically brilliant to the point of necessity. A cold and…
I don’t want our history to be taken the way our people were taken.
Game-changing. A living, breathing, capsule of righteous indignation that a simple story can’t be told. Can’t be shared. Can’t be spread. Can’t be remembered. The Clotilda was burnt, sunk, found, and then burnt again to erase its memory. And we can’t let the same thing happen to its story. Among my favorite documentaries, and easily the most important. Let this story be mandatory. Let our own ignorance be the only thing that we burn and sink.
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes is nothing short of ingenious. A gripping, accessible lo-fi comedy thriller that never lets up, director Junta Yamaguchi and writer Makoto Ueda create this atmosphere here that's just so incredibly unique. Everything feels so raw and, frankly, uncinematic due to the micro-budget, but there's no denying that it fits the film. Everything is so ordinary whilst being a sharp plunge into the extraordinary. Entirely comprised of one take, Two Minutes follows a group of friends…
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Brilliant, sincere, thoughtful, brutal; auteur filmmaker and playwright Florian Zeller writes and directs what is without a doubt the smartest, softest, saddest, and best film of 2020. He does so with a tour-de-force performance by veteran Anthony Hopkins and a more subtle performance by Olivia Colman. All three people deserve Oscars for this film, but I'll settle for some Letterboxd recognition. The thing The Father does that makes it…
