I think AI or The Fabelmans would have been my choice (the latter isn't a 'classic' by any stretch, but for the autobiographical nature of it)

War of the Worlds is such a mad one to include in this collection

'so chief, we've got these seven Spielberg classics lined up... what else should we add?'

NOT a half pint glass

I don't think it'll ever go down to 0, at least not for the time being.

Yi Yi at 20: Family, grief and finding the right words At the end of Edward Yang’s final film Yi Yi a small boy — Yang-Yang — who has been bullied and teased throughout, stands close to the…

25 years today since Yi Yi was released in London

I wrote this during Covid five years ago:

tomdavidson92.medium.com/yi-yi-at-20-...

I find it an overwhelming emotional experience for very mawkish reasons. Heck, I even cry when Cooper leaves Murph for the first time.

I can even overlook the ridiculousness of the ending because I find it's easily EASILY Nolan's most emotionally direct movie.

movies from the 2020s currently swirling around my brain:
- La Chimera
- Red Rooms
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Aftersun
- All We Imagine As Light
- Drive My Car
- Eddington
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Memoria

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately

first half of this movie literally ends with fascist Donald Sutherland fatally headbutting a cat

Are they still 'sundowners' if you can't see the sun or is it just a phrase for drinks around the time of sunset?

all the best shit was suppressed by chickenshit governments for decades in the 20th century

(currently streaming on iPlayer)

lots of people talking about ‘Killing Them Softly’ over at the other place

tomdavidson92.medium.com/how-would-yo...

now that’s a fucking movie, brother

(Am I the only one who is absolutely confused during the post-bank heist shootout???)

rewatching this for the first time since Covid, fuck me up again fam

still freaks my nut that apparently Ridley Scott saw this, watched Paul Mescal play this internally-conflicted, angsty, confused teenage boy and go ‘that’s who I want for Maximus’s son!’

"We're gonna get the phone book. Do it anyway."

#Wordle

I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it.

this is your best for quite some time (classic Bluesky backhanded compliment)

The Beast – when a difficult film becomes great on second watch There can be fewer better experiences in moviegoing than when a frustrating first-watch three-star movie transforms before your very eyes…

I wrote about The Beast myself here (and I am very keen to revisit it for a third time)

tomdavidson92.medium.com/the-beast-wh...

Lucrecia Dalt speaking about Bertrand Bonello's The Beast for her Criterion Top 10

feels weird seeing adverts like this from the lead actress in THE SUBSTANCE

feels weird seeing adverts like this from the lead actress in THE SUBSTANCE

Jack Fisk/Marty Supreme losing out to Frankenstein… I’m going to bed

OSCARS RANKING

(brackets are how many times I’ve watched)

The Secret Agent (2)
One Battle After Another (3)
Marty Supreme (2)
Sentimental Value (2)
Bugonia (1)
Sinners (1)
Hamnet (1)
Train Dreams (2)
Frankenstein (1)
F1 (1)

this Oscars campaign has been long and interminable but there are, I think, four genuinely outstanding movies in the running for best picture and i've (mostly) enjoyed the critical debate around all four of them

OSCARS RANKING

(brackets are how many times I’ve watched)

The Secret Agent (2)
One Battle After Another (3)
Marty Supreme (2)
Sentimental Value (2)
Bugonia (1)
Sinners (1)
Hamnet (1)
Train Dreams (2)
Frankenstein (1)
F1 (1)

Woman, 18, who partied after killing two teen pals in horror smash is jailed A SPEEDING driver who partied and went on a skiing holiday after killing her two teen pals in a horror crash has been jailed. Madeleine Lonsdale had only been driving for 12 weeks when she lost con…

A 14 month sentence!

Outrageous

www.thesun.co.uk/news/3850128...

sounds like you'd love to pass the costs onto your tenants, if you ask me

actually a real quote, somehow (unless the Telegraph have been caught with a fake case study again)

sounds like you'd love to pass the costs onto your tenants, if you ask me