Premise: Told through an almost Inception-like layering of voice over narration, a teenage girl reads a book narrated by an older writer who recounts his younger self narrating a story that was originally narrated by an older version of a lobby boy who worked with a world-famous hotel concierge when he was younger. The actors involved in that sentence were Tom Wilkinson, Jude Law, F. Murray Abraham, and Ralph Fiennes; in that order. It’s also the newest Wes Anderson movie, so expect plenty of dry humor, center alignment, and consistent fonts. And as expected, people still write each other hand-written notes in playfully whimsical cursive lettering.
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Movie Review: A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
We often bash Hollywood for having no new ideas, and just rehashing the same ten things over and over again, and releasing clumps of uninspired cookie cutter genre messes (most recently the “dark fairy tale” trend). But we tend to forget that original ideas are still indeed being made into films, and they can have strong potential to suck too. This film is a bold example of that.
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
There are probably five or six modern era directors who get me giddy schoolgirl levels of excited whenever they release a new film: Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Bros, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, and Wes Anderson. They don’t have nonstop output, and tend to favor quality over quantity. They all have careers in which I love 90% of what they’ve ever put out (or in a few cases, 100%). All of these guys seem more like passion project directors than paycheck directors. And they all make films that feel like actual films, that have an eye for cinematography and editing in addition to getting the story across.
Stuck in a Bunker: 100 Movies
I thought of doing this pretty much as a pointless exercise to see what I would actually do in a completely hypothetical situation (also because I was bored and felt like it), but I wondered this scenario: