Wanted: Fucking blustery is how I would describe this movie. It’s filled with bluster. Bullets curve around every which way, Angelina Jolie does not talk very much but sure does smirk a lot, nobody dies until they all do very suddenly. It’s blustery. It’s a movie with balls. But, like, giant, malformed, awkwardly-positioned balls. Balls [...]
Oh man. Oh man. This was a really good movie. I read in an interview beforehand that Chris Nolan used pretty much every idea he had for the Batman franchise in this movie and, after seeing it, I believe it. This is like a 12-part serial condensed into a two-and-a-half hour movie. It has about [...]
Sometimes even in movies that are entirely forgettable (or worse), there are still moments that work so well that they nearly floor me. Over the years, I’ve tried to keep a mental tally of these scenes. Now that I am getting older, my mental tally is failing me. So I thought I’d catalogue five of [...]
