28 Years Later - It was pretty good! I thought 28 Days and 28 Years were better than 28 Weeks. IMO 28 Days was the best for its grittiness, but 28 Years was pretty fascinating as well.
The Accountant 2 - Adam didn't bother but I liked it. I loved the first in this series; I love Ben Affleck as an autistic hit man; I thought he and Jon Bernthal were very believable as brothers.
Anora - Oh yeah, this was Mikey Madison from Better Things as a young stripper from Brooklyn who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch, they get married, and hijinks ensue.
Ballerina - We turned this off before the end, Keanu notwithstanding. Ugh.
Capturing Kennedy - Documentary about the official Kennedy photographer, the father of a friend of mine.
The Colour Room - Follows the journey of a determined, working class woman, Clarice Cliff, as she breaks the glass ceiling and becomes an acclaimed ceramics designer at a pottery factory in 1920s England.
Clarice Cliff, "Coral Firs" tea for two set
Companion - Satisfying. Jack Quaid as a douchebag! Who gets what's coming to him! Fun.
A Complete Unknown - Made me like Dylan just a tad more. (I've always maintained he's on "the list of things only guys like," but maybe I have to let go of that position.) I thought TC rendered him pretty well.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps - Fun. I love Pedro Pascal, I love Ebon Moss-Bachrach ('s voice, mostly, in this). It's fun.
Flow - I really enjoyed this essentially wordless cartoon of a cat being swept away by multiple floods, making friends, forming a family.
Good Fortune 😄 Man, I will watch most anything with Keanu Reeves. He's a godsdamned national treasure. Even makes up for ol' Seth Rogen.
Happy Gilmore - Another classic I never got around to before now. Fun.
Heads of State - So goofy. I like both John Cena and Idris Elba, so I let it play.
Honey Don't! - Sigh ok. This felt like soft core porn aimed at guys who like watching lesbians. So, like, Hollywood's favorite target audience.
I'm Not a Robot - 22 minute short, quite enjoyable and I still think about it every time I complete a Captcha.
Joker: Folie a Deux - I really enjoyed this! Somehow I had no idea this was a musical (everybody was like, did you notice it was Lady Gaga?). I loved the musical numbers. I had no idea Joaquin Phoenix could sing so beautifully.
The Life of Chuck - I had no idea Tom Hiddleston could DANCE so beautifully! We didn't know what to expect from this but just went with it, and we really enjoyed it.
Locked - With Bill Sarsgard, very violent and gory. I'm totally conflating it with Boy Kills World, which is also very violent and gory, but in this one he is mute.
Oh, Hi! - This goes wayyy too far. And then keeps going. But was an enjoyable ride. We liked it.
One Battle after Another - I actually loved this. I only wish there had been two movies, a full length one with much more of Perfidia (Teyana Taylor), and then the second one with the aftermath. I adore Benicio Del Toro, he never fails to enchant me. Uh, Sean Penn is fucking nuts in this.
Omni Loop - Ayo Edebiri is a physicist who solves time travel to help Mary-Louise Parker solve time travel? Or, Mary-Louise Parker is a physicist with a black hole in her chest with one week to live and she enlists Ayo Edebiri, another physicist, to help her.
The Order - We both will watch most anything Nicholas Hoult does, and this was interesting.
Paint - Adam didn't want to see this so it took me a while to get to it but it was delightful. (Despite shitty reviews & Rotten Tomato numbers.) It's a spot-on rendering of the quiet-talking PBS life. And a very lovely little love story with Michaela Watkins, who's just wonderful every time.
Perfect Days - This is the one about the Tokyo bathroom cleaner who has a wonderful life doing what he does, very conscientiously. Also the bathrooms, designed by various architects, including Tadao Ando, are gorgeous sights to behold.
The Phoenician Scheme - Fun, a pretty run of the mill Wes Anderson movie. Not my favorite of his, but all right.
Predator Badlands - Amaze! Elle Fanning did great work as two different androids with very different personalities. And the fight scenes, I don't want to spoil anything, but one in particular is worth the whole movie in and of itself.
Roofman 😄 Sweet movie with Channing Tatum as the eponymous character.
The Roses - Remake of War of the Roses, I thought it was partly sad but I liked the ending quite a lot. I love Olivia Colman.
The Running Man - Glen Powell is so hot right now LOL - Seriously that scrunched-up-face handsome man is everywhere. IMO this is not as good as the original, but the rendition of awfulness that our oligarchy is leading us toward seemed pretty realistic.
Sinners! A+++++++ We saw it twice and loved it both times.
Sketch - This kids' movie with grieving father Tony Hale was totally watchable by adults as well. I thought they did a great job integrating the CGI of the drawings into the real world scenery. And I absolutely buy D'Arcy Carden and TH as siblings!
Superman - I loved this. It did get a bunch of hate but I thought it was good.
Thunderbolts - I really liked this! It was a bit silly but I like antiheroes who grow up. I like redemption tales.
Wicked - Freaking unwatchable. We couldn't stand it and turned it off after about 45 minutes. Mind you, I read the original book by Gregory Maguire a long time ago, and my mom and I saw the show on Broadway with the original cast, so I think I have earned the right to hate on this.
