It’s all about status and power. Who has it, and how they wield it. Who doesn’t have it, and what they’ll do to acquire it. How each of these circumstances impacts a person’s soul, the way they see themselves, and the way they treat others. Sex, tennis, marriage. It’s all competition. It’s all part of the game.
The way each of these characters plays the sport tells us everything we need to know about them. Patrick has flare, but lacks…
One of the biggest discoveries of the year for me. A passion project for Butch Cassidy and The Sting director George Roy Hill, who served many years as a fighter pilot in the Marines, The Great Waldo Pepper contains a potent mixture of triumph and sadness in its portrait of the titular character, played with remarkable vulnerability by Robert Redford.
With Waldo Pepper and the various other pilots around him, all fresh out of World War I where they were…
Think I’m going to make a point to watch this every year on May 11th out of respect for the worst day of Henry Hill’s life.
I never quite went for the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy to the extent that others did. I always liked War the most, I came around to liking Dawn after a few watches, and Rise I’ve always just felt was complete dreck with a solid final 15-20 minutes. The strongest asset that trilogy has comes in the world-building and in the richness of Caesar’s character arc. You really follow him on this gripping, nuanced journey over the course of…
Truly horrifying how many people are going to watch this movie, rate it highly and bestow it awards and whatever, and then still be pro-Israel. This is literally about you.
First section is okay, just not particularly fresh or insightful. “Rich people are evil narcissistic idiots” — yeah bro, I know. And?
Second section is just this rinsed and repeated, followed up by an excruciatingly long gross-out comedy sequence that‘s about as sharp and tactful as I had come to expect after the low-hanging fruit we got leading up to it.
Third section is one of the most interminable slogs I’ve seen in a while. A man completely running out…
