Dir. Darius Marder. Starring Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Olivia Cooke If you know the basic premise of Sound of Metal going into the film, even if it’s as simple as “rock drummer starts going deaf,” then you know what’s going to happen in this movie. The scenes fall into place in logical ways. If you… Read More Sound of Metal (2020)
Dir. Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn A “Zemeckis cube” and a DeLorean, a long chapter of the film devoted to painstakingly recreating The Shining, namedropping the Millennium Falcon, and of course, the somewhat controversial usage of the Iron Giant. If on one snowy night, his lip cut up from a punch and his mind… Read More Ready Player One (2018)
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