Not one for the Leo highlight reel in particular, but I have to say yes.
Sheesh, it was sub-Twilight but also not nearly as bad you thought it was going to be? Your expectations must have been indescribably awful.
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Damn I guess I forgot I already saw it.
Well I must have remembered the awfulness because yes, I had rock bottom expectations. I mean Iām all for a sequel to Moon, but to lose Sam Rockwell? A huge misstep.
(thatās a joke)
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Train Dreams (2025)
Echoing the complimentary sentiments. This is maybe the best-looking film of the year. Joel Edgerton is always an absolute charisma vacuum, and this movie is no exception to that. However! Seemingly all that is required from this role is to have Joel Edgertonās face, so on that front I think they hired the foremost expert. In fact, it would have been awkward to hire anyone else given that specific need.
Wasnāt quite as blown away as clovis, but I liked it a fair bit, and I could also see it burrowing under my skin and growing in the same way that Kelly Reichardt films do.
3.5/5
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Train Dreams #2 on my 2025 list (to Dead Mail).
The scene with Robert telling Claire about his not being there when the fire rolled in is flawless.
Billyās eulogy for Arn and the subsequent meeting between Billy and Robert also just top top shelf.
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Try again
Sheās one of those people who are so good looking you think maybe they are CGI.
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New Running Man movie was fun enough for a movie youād watch on TBS on a Saturday afternoon. So not really up to the level of Wrightās other work, but thatās OK.
And a good makeup artist?
Wick is Pain (2025)
Wick Is Pain was filmed over a decade and shows the behind-the-scenes reality of creating John Wick and its subsequent franchise films. It explores how Keanu, David, and Chad met, to how they were introduced to the original screenplay by Derek, titled Scorn, through to the fourth installment, John Wick: Chapter 4. The documentary outlines how the first movie was almost never made and details why two men, best known for their stunt choreography, and both first-time directors, turned out to be the right choice to direct the film.
Wick is Pain is an absolute delight. Keanu Reeves takes so much pleasure in telling stories, making fun of himself, and discussing his career that its infectious. Especially when they show a ton of behind the scenes footage of him smiling between takes. This is a documentary that makes you feel good in surprising ways.
And then the insight Chad Stahelski offers on the development of each new chapter is also insightful into the act of filmmaking.
This documentary focuses only on the John Wick franchise, but I feel like I got to know more about Keanu than I did Eddie Murphy in a doc supposedly spanning his entire career.
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1900 (1976)
thereās a five hour version but i found a four hour version on pluto for free so i watched that. idk if cutting an hour out of it got more people to see it. i think anybody who is going to watch 4 hours of movie is deranged enough to watch 5.
itās an extremely political film about italian peasants and landowners in a time of rising fascism. in hour 2 i was getting concerned they might humanize the fascists too much because donald sutherland is a major fascist agitator and heās just way better than deniro. robert deniro is a bad actor, i think. but then donald sutherland headbutts a cute little innocent kitten to death, to show his fascist followers how ruthless they have to be when dealing with workers who peacefully assemble and negotiate for better wages.
for me, this may be an all-time sutherland performance. when the fascistsā power is waning, a group of peasants start throwing horse shit at donald sutherland and his tractor, and one of the filthy peasants starts fingering a real horseās asshole, and begging for more shit to throw at donald sutherland, and when the shit starts flowing out he catches it in his bare hands and turns to the camera with a huge smile showing how few teeth he has left. iām so glad that scene wasnāt part of the hour they cut, because i really wasnāt expecting something that funny to happen and it got a big laugh out of me
3 bags of popcorn
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Jay Kelly (2025)
So, the bad thing about this movie is that the titular Jay Kelly is not an interesting character. I feel like an older man looking back on his life and career with some sort of regret or whatever is the type of sentimentality that Iām usually in for, but I could only ever get partially reeled in by this aspect. I usually like George Clooney, and I honestly couldnāt tell you if this is more of an issue of a weak script or a subpar Clooney performance. Maybe some mix of both.
However, Adam Sandler is really fucking good in this as Jay Kellyās manager, and it is mostly him who keeps this thing kind of afloat. I left the theater essentially thinking that there was an alternate movie in here where the manager is the main character and the aging star heās managing is secondary, and that hypothetical movie might have been really good. This oneā¦was alright. Passable on the strength of the Sandler performance. Would be happy to see him get an Oscar nomination.
Itās in the middle of a quick theatrical run right now and will be on Netflix soon. You can watch it or not; it did not need to be 133 minutes long.
3/5
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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-hollywood-2674336396/
Trump wants movies like Rush Hour and Bloodsport.
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I feel like he had a stroke right before or during the mandami meeting and now heās super cool
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He just literally canāt stop trying to revive the careers of some of the worst predators in Hollywood. Ratner is a pervert who literally took down a studio head with one of his āschemesā that backfired so spectacularly that heās gone too. He is more canceled than Charlie Kirk and that is saying something, so naturally Trump wants the series revived probably with Ratner helming. Tucker is also a vastly different person from when he made those movies, so you wonāt be getting any of the same energy from the movie if it does come back.
Yeah but Bloodsport is fuckin awesome and Iām mad he likes it too
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Movies and TV are the great equalizers across all ideologies. Itās ok and people should focus more on finding that type of common ground. It would go a long way toward lowering the temperature of the world. It might even put us into an ice age.
Also, the only way his friends at Paramount could do another Rush Hour is if he puts his thumb on the scale and forces Warner Bros. Discovery to sell to Paramount (3 bids are in). Itās New Line, a basically (less) independent subsidiary of Warner Bros. that fell more under the umbrella after the merger and probably earlier than that as I think they lost true independence in the 2010s.
Not to mention Jackie Chan is on the wrong side of 70
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I also read somewhere heās dearly paying the price for all the crazy stunts he did.