When Black Adam underperforms at the box office Dwayne Johnson will post a video going “just want to thank you, the fans, because our movie just had the fastest growing Tuesday to Wednesday second week uptick in GLOBAL HISTORY for a film shot during the pandemic”
Alien Romulus: there’s a genuinely terrifying moment about 15 minutes into this where they put the whole cast in one room and you realise this is who you’re going to be spending the next two hours with.
*peaks out of the storm shelter from Twister and scans the horizon for Challengers stans*
Talking of great shots (😉) George Miller unable to contain his joy talking about the final shot in The Fabelmans put a smile on my face
Someone took a photo with their phone of a TV playing Roma, and the phone didn’t get the colour temperature right, and now Jeff Wells is convinced there’s a colour version of Roma. Incredible.
Glen Powell must have some kind of 1 in 1000 charisma because he plays someone unbelievably conceited in Top Gun and yet somehow isn’t annoying. Maybe he just has a nice face.
These Tarantino reviews being published on the New Beverly site are a must read. 90% of his references SAAIIIIIL over my head but his enthusiasm is infectious. Great anecdotes too.
“What did you think of Killing Eve season 3?”
“It doesn’t cut as deep... but the blade still patiently waits to strike”
“What?”
“Well that is to say... it doesn’t cut as deep, but the blade... uh... patiently waits to strike”
“I don’t know what you mean”
*tugs at collar* “uh...”
“Just like real soldiers who are numb to war” Reading these tweets one can imagine how it must have felt to be a tea boy in the offices of Cahiers du Cinéma circa 1954 overhearing a conversation between André Bazin and Éric Rohmer.
Tony Scott’s Pelham 123: another poorly received film that is pretty exciting by today’s standards, full of texture, charismatic performances and blurred, almost abstract, editing. And look at these squibs, you can’t do this digitally
“Hey Sam Mendes I heard you made a one shot war film!”
“Yeah! Kind of!”
“Kind of?”
“Well we edited together multiple shots to create the illusion of TWO long shots”
“So you just made a film”
“Yes”
One of the most draining things about twitter, and obviously it's a sign of getting older, is constantly being exposed to the terrible opinions of people in their 20s
So fucking annoyed. Crowd at my Batman screening wouldn’t stop chanting “POI. ROT. POI. ROT” over and over until the theater buckled and played Branagh’s Death on the Nile instead