#Unbreakable (2000)
Still my favourite #Shyamalan film! Such a low-key surprise after his breakthrough #TheSixthSense, it upended the superhero movie, no? MNS, Jackson, Willis, DP Serra & esp the great #JamesNewtonHoward all at the top of their games. Well worth a re-watch!💪🥛
#Glass
Forget the reviews & enjoy a meta #Shyamalan-verse superhero movie feat. Willis's very particular screen presence, McAvoy going full-Tom-Hardy, Paulson's empathetic-Nurse-Ratched perf & Sam Jackson raging against not getting top billing in a film named after his character
#BorgVsMcEnroe
More ruminative Euro Art Film than rah-rah Sports Movie & catnip for tennis fans! Skarsgard, Novotny & Gudnason are great but #ShiaLaBeouf steals the show "playing" a fiery prodigy who finds acceptance when he finally learns to channel anger & let talent flow...😏
#Puzzle
Absolutely delightful! Genial character study that offers plenty of nuance and emotion. Ensemble is fab, esp the great #Irrfan (funny & moving livewire) & the great Macdonald (doing so much by doing so precisely "little"). Criminally passed over during Awards Season 😩
Yo! #ChadwickBoseman FTW!
🙌👏👍👊🤛🤜🤟🤘👌👋🖖🤙💪
#BlackPanther 🐱✊
#SAGAwards
Woah! If #Djokovic starts blasting aces past a fellow alltimer, then that's no, ahem, Djoke🤣🎾😳💪
Brutal beatdown of never-quit #Nadal gives him 15 slams & moves him past #Sampras. What a time to be a sports fan!
PS #Herbert & #Mahut Career Slam!
PPS #Stosur Home Slam!
#AusOpen
Yo! That was some sparkling, aggressive tennis with so many twists and turns! Congrats to #NaomiOsaka, man, her star-is-born seems to be neverending. Inspirational stuff from #Kvitova, her comeback is 👍
PS. Kudos to #RajeevRam, finally gets his Slam!
Well done, #AusOpen🎾 🤙🙌🙌
#NeverLookAway
Well-crafted old-school romantic/art/political/war epic with one of the most chilling prologues ever put on film. Gotta love DP Deschanel (#Oscars!) & prod design Buhr & perfs by Masucci, Koch & esp Rosendahl. With so much going on 3hrs(😲) go by with minimum fuss
Bad luck for #Serena, but at least that #Osaka-#Pliskova semis was a ball-striking/bashing clinic!
The finals against #Kvitova (how about her comeback?!👏) should be a corker, nothing like bold, aggressive tennis, eh? Kudos to #DanielleCollins on her run!
#AusOpen
#TheHateUGive
Entertaining, moving, nuanced, & just fantstic! Kudos to director Tillman Jr. for juggling so many warring elements & vivid characters: Hornsby, the great Hall & esp young, ahem, star Stenberg. Hope audiences discover this unjustly-ignored-by-Awards-Season gem.
#StanAndOllie
Very sweet & extremely sad look at the waning days of everyone's favourite duo #LaurelAndHardy. Enjoy the superb 2-acts-for-the-price-of-1 work by Reilly (robbed by #Oscars!😩) & Coogan, *and* Arianda & Henderson (with a hilariously oily Jones thrown into the mix).
Our long (inter)national nightmare is over, #Kafelnikov (finally!) makes into #TennisHOF!
Congrats also to (the always-fun) #LiNa & (the shotmaking/resilient) #MaryPierce. Now we gotta get #Ivanisevic & #ThomasMuster in!😇
#tennis 🎾👏👍💪✊🤙
#TheRider
Beautifully realised documentary-fiction hybrid that slowly catches up with you to deliver a meditative, melancholy, moving cinematic experience. Nice work by young director Zhao & her non-pro cast, esp the effortlessly charismatic lead. *Stunning* DP work by Richards!
Maybe #GOAT's in the retirement-tour phase...
Or maybe after 4hr razor-thin loss to shotmaking marvel *half* his age, #Federer needs the clay-season ranking pts becuz he's not ready to go gentle into that good night! #RF21!
Kudos #Tsitsipas👍!
PS Thank G*d for #Tiafoe!
#AusOpen
Yeesh! #EPL 2nd half (like #AusOpen) is gonna be nervewracking! Good thing #LFC has #MoSalah, #Firmino & #Mane, eh?😬
#LIVCRY
Speaking of, hopefully #Federer won't let those #Tsitsipas fans get into his head like nice-guy #DelPo's insufferable fans did at #IndianWells!😑
Whew! Good, more-like-a-#GOAT win for #Federer over bright-future #TaylorFritz. Next, another young 'un: #Tsitsipas😱😰
PS. Another great #Tiafoe win💪👏!
PPS. Bad luck for #Wozniacki & #Bencic.
PPPS. Wasn't #Tsonga-#Djokovic an #AusOpen finals recently?! Man, time flies!⏰💨
#MindingTheGap
Astonishing! Like a mini Gen-Z American #UpSeries. Profound, moving, complex portrait of mixed-race blue-collar Americana & the price kids have to pay for their older generation. #Oscars-level directing, editing & music, esp considering the youth at work!🛹📹👏
*Technically*, #BradleyCooper has 4 Guild Noms: #DGA/#PGA/#WGA/#SAG...
& 2 #Grammys noms?! Woah! Let's round upto 5 & add him to #MountRushmore as well! 👏
PS B-Coop was robbed at the #Tonys...he really should be an #EGOT already😄
#AStarIsBorn
@desertblossomAZ @FiveThirtyEight
#ChungkingExpress (1996)
Ah, #WongKarWai! Still heart-breaking/filling after all these years. Fall in love with all those beautiful people beautifully designed/phographed by #WilliamChang & #ChristopherDoyle. PS. What happend with WKW & CD?! Sigh💔
(h/t the "late" great Dan B)
Yeesh...tough 3-setter vs 189 in Rd. 2... better to get the #GOAT-snafu out of the way early, right... right?!😬 Up next for #Federer: kid #TaylorFritz (#Monfils😭)!
PS. Great wins for #Tiafoe, #Bencic, #Anisimova & #Osaka! *Tough* break for #Opelka.
#AusOpen
#Bumblebee
Give the Nike scion credit for wanting to save stopmotion animation & graduating to directing retro, kid-&-alien movies with the best 80s soundtracks, ever! Cena is tongue-in-cheek fun & Steinfeld is a winning presence. 🐝🤖🚗🎧😁
RIP #CarolChanning
Legendary, larger-than-life Broadway star, gone at 97...what a ride! #HelloDolly
#IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
Absolutely enchanting. I'm so down for Jenkins's #WongKarWai-esque swoon-worthy feast for the senses! Speaking of #Oscars, King is (always)great, but so is the ensemble: James, Parris, Henry, Ellis(!) & *esp* Layne. PS. How about that score from Britell?!
Speaking of Last Stands...#GOAT's started (surprisingly🤗) well vs. tricky #Istomin!
Sadly, (poor)#AndyMurray's didn't, but, as always, he fought to the *bitter* end😖
PS. Tough luck for #Isner (#Opelka!) & (always-fun) #Ostapenko,
#Federer #AusOpen
#TheMule
Another Clint cinematic Rorschach test. Subversive/hegemonic sendup/validation of old white male toxic/justified patriarchy. Also, it's a black comedy/police procedural/family drama. Also, with his real/reel life daughter it's all a meta mea culpa,right? Good/bad stuff!
Hopefully, this sends some good vibes the #GOAT's way... this year (like every year?) could be #Federer's last stand! 😱🎾🐐
Duh-duh-duh!
#AusOpen #AO19
Oh no!! Say it ain't so Andy, say it ain't so!!
#AndyMurray announces retirement plans... at 31! Man, that hip injury (same one that got #Guga?) robbed sports of one its most tenacious battlers...& socially-conscious gentleman athletes. Sigh... 😩
#tennis
There's a splendid 2.5hr period foreign B&W film about a woman struggling to find her way in a third-world metropolis made by a critically-beloved #Oscar-winning international auteur. The name of that movie is…Mahanagar! (h/t great @aoscott)
#Mahanagar (#TheBigCity) (1963) 2/2
Wonderful film, up amongst #SatyajitRay's very best. Languid, deeply affecting dissection of a family coming to grips with a modernising India. Beautiful work by everyone, esp. the prod design by Chandragupta & lead perf by #MadhabiMukherjee.
#Aquaman
Good #PacificRim-Meets-#Waterworld fun. I'm totally down for Momoa & Wan's melodramaoperatic-ishtyle…but the heavy lifting's done by Heard & *esp* Kidman. PS. #Pitbull sampling #Africa for the Sahara sequence… yaaaaasssss!!!! 😂🤣😅👏👍🙌
Man, @FiveThirtyEight should dig into the numbers behind #AlfonsoCuaron's FIVE guild noms (#DGA, #PGA, #ASC, #WGA, #ACE)!😲
He belongs on the #MountRushmore of directors/producers/DPs/writers/editors/human beings!
PS. Kudos to #Netflix's awards-worthy #ROMA #Oscars campaign!💪
#LeaveNoTrace
Wonderful gem of an indie film & all-too rare cinematic exploration of white, western poverty. Delicately put together by Granik & DP McDonough. Great work by Dickey, Foster & esp McKenzie(👏!). Too underresourced for #Oscars, maybe it'll get all the #IndieSpirits!
Ha! Remember, a loss for #NickSatan, er I mean #Alabama, is a win for all that is good in this world! *
Congrats, I suppose, to #Clemson, & whoever it was that was playing QB & zinging the ball around.
* Actually do feel bad for #Tua, the kid's a fighter.
#CFBChampionship
Un-bl**dy-believable! To win a Test Series in #AUS*…man, this will go down in #IND #cricket history.
Well done #Virat…& of course our great #CheteshwarPujara!
PS. I'm so down for a thunder-and-lightning/odd-couple buddy-comedy with #Pujara & #Pant… #PujaraAndPant!!!! 😂🤣 🏏
