back in 2001 when hedwig was released i was only halfway through my teens. when the film opened downtown, roughly 30 minutes away from my high school i honestly felt like i was sneaking off into uncharted territories.
sure, i was a film buff then. i enjoyed my limited ‘living in suburbia’ deep dive into queer cinema but the allure of hedwig and the angry inch after it’s premier in sundance felt needed and scary, a movie that felt notorious…
second best super-meta buddy action comedy of the year.
third best paddington film of the decade.
had some fun watching this. cage and pascal are truly joyous to watch. there’s a film franchise here where these two chums fight the putins and kim jong uns of the world together - rogen and goldberg missed out on that one.
can’t help but feel this movie was missing just a bit more deep cut cage-isms. oh, and much more fun/gory violence.
also:…
consider me shocked.
not because cary joji fukunaga couldn’t handle a bond film, his filmography has lead me to believe that he’s not only a fantastic director but someone who truly knows how to make a story sing. no, i’m just a little shocked that he and his team managed to salvage the narrative mess that was spectre into something both thrilling, absolutely fun (an entire sequence in cuba with ana de armes had me smiling from secret earpiece to…
it’s the greatest movie ever made so now i can finally take off my 35-year-old unwashed spidey pajamies, move out of the unregulated sectioned-off basement apartment i can barely afford, turn off my gaming computer that i’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on (money i should have probably instead spent on new clothes, a hair cut, a gym membership, decent healthy food and a few dates), stop talking about comic book movies on twitter/4chan/tiktok/instagram and just go outside and…
