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#TronAres is a fun blockbuster with an outstanding soundtrack by #NIN. I hope we don't have to wait another decade and a half for the next installment in this underrated series. Absolutely worth the ride in IMAX 3D, speaking as a not-a-fan of 3D in general.

Dwayne Johnson is a revelation, and sometimes unrecognizable, in Benny Safdie’s #TheSmashingMachine. This is a role he was born to play and he absolutely deserves an Oscar-nomination for it.

PTA’s #OneBattleAfterAnother is a masterpiece. It features outstanding performances, ingenious writing, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. It also just might be next year’s Best Picture Oscar-winner. I was lucky enough to see in VistaVision and I think a 70mm IMAX viewing might be next.

This is an example of why America is great.

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The new Superman film is the first time that America has been forced to stare at itself in the cultural mirror since the election iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

#Superman is the first truly definitive iteration of the character in the modern era. It's a film with sincerity, heart, wholesomeness, and refreshingly lacking in cynicism. Perfectly cast, and beautifully written. @jamesgunn.bsky.social has done it at long last. He got it right.

I'm walking down Brewer Street in Soho, and I see two men, one of them very stylishly dressed, walking towards me. I said to one of them, "Are you Spike Lee?!". He goes, "Yes." We fist-bump. If I wasn't also on the phone while this encounter happened, I knew I would never be believed.

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Like much of Nathan Fielder's body of work, the incredible new season of #TheRehearsal defies explanation -- any attempt to do so will fall short of doing it justice and make me sound like a crazy person.

#Sinners is an experience to behold. Complex, layered, and wildly entertaining, it’s the type of film Hollywood needs to make more of. See it in 70mm IMAX if you can, but see it nonetheless. Ryan Coogler has done it yet again.

Saw @kumail.bsky.social do his brilliant new stand up in London tonight. Laughed my head off, and JFC he looks even more swole in real life!

For the director, the studio exec is picking between Scorcese and the guy who made the Captain Underpants movie.

Black Bag features a split diopter shot, and noticing it brought me a lot of joy, thanks to following @tvaziri.com on the internet for all these years!

I've never been this hyped up for an #Oscars ceremony, not because of the films (which are excellent), but because of the incomparable #Conan O'Brien. I've been a fan for most of my life, I think I can easily say he's my favorite comedian.

A slow burn, but precisely the type of film Ebert would describe as an "empathy machine". Highly recommend seeing #SeedOfTheSacredFig.

A bunch of people talking in a room for 90 minutes can in fact be some of the most riveting pieces of film you can ever see, #September5 is proof of that. It deserved a Best Picture nod.

#Companion is a terrific start to 2025 moviegoing; its hilarious, exciting, and immensely satisfying, What a debut from writer-director Drew Hancock! Go see it on the big screen.

Half-Life 3 confirmed.

Robert Eggers’ #Nosferatu features all of his strengths as a filmmaker in even stronger forms. Beautifully designed and impeccably filmed with a remarkable cohesion in its editing. Thanks to the New Beverly for presenting it in glorious 35mm!

#TheBrutalist is a vast, gripping epic about the deceit, lie and betrayal in the immigrant experience and the so-called “American dream.” It’s a 3.5 hour film in which not a single frame is wasted. One of the best films of the year and of recent years. “It’s all rotten. This whole place is rotten.”

Finally saw #Wicked and though I’m not usually a fan of musicals, I couldn’t help but feel that this is the sort of movie that the movies were made for. Impeccable work from everyone, from the cast to the art direction. The film is a joy in every sense of the word.

Some shots of Santa Monica Pier from back in June 2024.

Shot these on iPhone 16 Pro on a trip to Paris last weekend. The Apple camera engineers are doing incredible work!

Hello world! Sky’s looking blue today!