Veteran of the great video store wars of the 2000s. Fitful filmmaker. Human of late capitalism.
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Challengers 2024
TOP GUN if you pushed the [not so] latent homoeroticism slightly further; including homoerotic male competition. The dogfights in Top Gun become the tennis matches here. Similar too in the technical prowess ultimately feeling like entertaining if empty calories. Can't deny the mind blowing editing. Can't deny the fire score even if I highly suspect Reznor + Ross had these electro house bangers sitting around for years just waiting for the right movie to [ahem!] challenge Daft Punk and Justice on their own astro turf. Game set match boyz.
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Rolling Thunder 1977
"What if Sam Peckinpah made The Best Years of Our Lives?"
— Paul Schrader, probably
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Googly eyes on infinity stones is about right. Totally tracks that it was produced by the Russo brothers and directed by the guys who made a movie featuring the farting corpse of Harry Potter and the (admittedly awesome) "Turn Down for What" music video.
You're going to read a lot of comparisons to Charlie Kaufman and Terry Gilliam films, but more than anything it reminded me of the continual influence of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Captures the same IFL…
