Jake Gittes

dumb.

About an hour or so of this is just mediocre, functionally hitting the story's beats without inspiration or force, but then the final third bastardizes the novel and its ideas so mindlessly and completely it's outright nauseating.

if us cinephiles had any say about it all movies would still be two minutes long, no sound, showing people walking out of factories

yes. read the book instead.

Silver Lake is his best performance no joke.

tired: cat-sized cats wired: humans playing human-sized cats INSPIRED: humans playing cat-sized cats

since Endgame moved there.

160 gb ipod is the only apple thing I've ever bought I think. gave out on me recently after almost six years.

Thankfully you don't have to leave, visionary filmmaker Todd Phillips is here to save mainstream cinema

Man I love Jarmusch but this really looks like a "How do you do fellow kids" movie from him. Hope it's better than the trailer suggests.

More cool film festival opportunities for movie buffs under a certain age, in addition to the three days in Cannes thing.

Dan Stevens in psycho The Guest mode is still my pick.

i'm in

it is not.

well, it did better than The Nut Job 2 at least.

I can dig it

Even better if you can get your hands on some good moonshine. That's the stuff

I'm a drinker but haven't smoked a cigarette in my life. Would like to try weed though.

Well they were accessible enough to do it but even the initial expansions fizzled and I feel like it didn't have to be this way. End of the Tour and Lean on Pete were arthouse-audience-friendly enough to make several times more what they did.

If anything I'm relieved. After that Friday I thought Unplanned was heading for high single digits. Hopefully it doesn't go over 15 total.

Well they got to hear a great Elton John song

The Spectacular Now, A Most Violent Year, 20th Century Women, Green Room, End of the Tour, Good Time, Locke, Lean on Pete all could have stood to make more I think. They have this thing where they'll rapidly expand a movie from under 100 theaters to over 600 and the PTA predictably collapses and there's no time for awareness to appear (beyond movie buffs) or WOM to catch on and two weeks later the movie's gone. Searchlight, Miramax/TWC, Focus in their prime all seemed like they really cared about maximizing their limited releases' potential, all these new hip distributors often give the sense that they put a movie in semi-wide release and sorta just assume people will show up based on... internet critical hype? I dunno. Looking at the list of their releases Lady Bird, Hereditary, The Witch, The Lobster, maybe Ex Machina and Spring Breakers are the only times I was genuinely impressed with how an A24 movie performed.

the way these cycles work nowadays it'll probably be a cult favorite before the end of the year.