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James Cameron stages his own Force Awakens-esque return to the big screen with an epic crowdpleaser comprised wholly of his singular interests. In moments big and small, The Way of Water is effectively Avatar again, but also a weirder, prettier, more complex, more personal Avatar
Apropos of nothing, some non-Peele/non-Carpenter horror directors with 3+ great films in a row
Michele Soavi, Bustillo & Maury, Tobe Hooper, Greg McLean, Dario Argento, Rubén Galindo Jr, Rodrigo Aragão, Stuart Gordon…
Oh yeah, Godzilla vs Kong is still immensely entertaining. Skull Island remains my Monsterverse fave, but in terms of unadulterated giant monster action, it’s the best this side of Pacific Rim. Literally imbuing Kong with ‘80s action homages is tremendous genre synergy, I love it
Is Chronicles of Riddick part of this category? Because we could use more movies like Chronicles of Riddick. One of the jewels of an era where a studio would put $100 million+ on Pulp-Sci-Fi-Space-Conan https://t.co/QjZQFhx9mu
The Animatrix has been a blindspot of mine for almost 20 years, so I’m glad to have finally seen this cross-medium experiment. Do Star Wars Visions, Arcane, etc exist without the Wachowskis’ trailblazing?
Program, Second Renaissance, Beyond, and Detective Story were my favorites
C. M. Koseman and @simonroyart‘s evolved-avian reimagining of “Dinosauroids” is one of the most evocative and ingenious speculative futures I’ve seen in a long while
A lot more art, plus fascinating zoological details, on their blog: https://t.co/BSQxHlVfEs
Chronicles of Riddick, aka fuck it, why not: The Movie. That shiv-loving outlaw is now a Space-Conan super-badass tasked by Wind Sage Judi Dench to defeat an empire of planet-killing zombie cultists. A Heavy-Metal Space-Opera Prison-Break Blockbuster. A pleasure, no guilt
Wow. I don’t like being negative about films, but this was bad. Let’s put aside Del Toro’s films because Hellboy 2019 is terrible (AF) all on its own. A jumbled collage of ugly scenes, loosely forming a plot that’s 5% about stopping the evil Blood Queen & 95% about exposition
Patlabor 2 (Mamoru Oshii, 1993) sculpts the franchise into a pensive, nuanced political thriller. A precursor to Ghost In The Shell in tone and texture, the film simmers with conspiratorial suspense. Its climactic Labor battle is a claustrophobic tactical affair