Last movie you watched......

American Animals.

A small indie about the true-life heist of rare books from a university library. Really enjoyed it. Don't want to give too much away, but it plays with the line between fact and fiction and memory in ways that I thought were super interesting. Great soundtrack, too.

 

Definitely a lot better lines and more laughs in E2. Not enough kicking ass.

 

The Post for the second time. The last scene, with the security guard walking down the hall, and the John Williams score kicks in really gave me the chills.

 

A Bad Moms Christmas. About as authentic as you would expect from a Christmas movie shot in May in Atlanta. So terrible. And yet it made about $120 mil on a $30 mil budget.

 

Ready Player One. Surprisingly mediocre.

 

Baby Driver. Surprisingly good.
Great cast, but damn damn damn if Lily James isn’t gorgeous and Eiza Gonzales isn’t equally hot.

I bought the soundtrack before the movie ended.

 

My new favourite movie review

 

First Reformed.

Better than I expected - riveting in a quiet way at times - even if Schrader is a much better writer than director. (He was a better director when he made Affliction. First Reformed shares some similarities.)

The very, very end doesn't work for me. The last 2 minutes. I've read enough on it to decide Schrader didn't even really know what to do there at the very end.

Ethan Hawke is good. Amanda Seyfried is quietly excellent, natural, and her role is more important than it at first seems. She's improved as an actor.

 

Beirut. Hamm and Pike trying to entangle a hostage crisis in...Beirut. OK. Lots o cliches in the dialogue. I've never quite bought Hamm as an action movie star.

 

I enjoyed it, too -- except for the ending. Nearly ruined it. I think it is Hawke's best work.

 

He didn’t disappoint. He’s been good for a long time. Triple threat - acts, writes, directs. One of the best.

 

I like him more in the somewhat comedic roles. He wasn’t funny in Baby Driver, but it wasn’t a deadly serious hard action movie and Hamm was very good. He’s very Kyle Chandler-esq.

Looked up his imdb credits, he did a Sponge Bob episode as Don Grouper.