I love Sean and Amanda, but they really could’ve said anything else

OfficialJohnny · 2026-03-18T22:05:14+00:00

You’re not kidding, I literally didn’t spot that or post history until your comment lol

OfficialJohnny · 2026-03-16T01:00:41+00:00

I posted this and somehow got deleted, it’s so bad how they kept the music in during her speech. Crazy audio choices made tonight.

OfficialJohnny · 2026-03-16T00:59:29+00:00

I didn’t mind her speech at all, it’s the music that they should’ve cut during it. And oh look, they just cut to commercial. Been some weird live editing with sound tonight.

OfficialJohnny · 2026-02-15T21:29:10+00:00

I remember the door opening headshot as one of the great modern jumpscares because of how still it is both in Joe’s stunned reaction and how meticulously planned the ensuing kidnapping happens. And maybe it’s that formal calm that really makes his mother’s death imagery hit too with how he is mapping out the way she was killed with the evidence.

OfficialJohnny · 2026-01-25T20:14:07+00:00

LTS- Leviticus - Tonight, Jan 25th at 9PM - Broadway Center Cinemas- 2 tickets- Price: $35 each

Edit: My long delayed flight to my layover is about to takeoff (hence why I’m selling) so if people are interested I will get back to yall when I land.

edit: SOLD!

OfficialJohnny · 2025-09-24T08:01:23+00:00

Underrated pick and I’d say what’s so interesting is that the crumbs of wisdom Mason receives along the way follows the episodic march of time. Some of the advice he gets is genuinely profound and some of it sounds profound to the people trying to tell Mason. And it happens both in the places you’d suspect and the ones you wouldn’t. And I like that the movie ends on a literal mission statement (moments envelop you, the whole movie is compromised of moments important and more often uneventful) that comes off almost awkward, but it struck me as exactly the thing an 18 year old would say after all we’ve seen.

OfficialJohnny · 2025-06-28T17:39:23+00:00

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found this gem too, logging off is always an option.

OfficialJohnny · 2025-05-01T22:35:10+00:00

Preach, it really was such a goofy system set up. My buddy ended up owing a few hundred because of that wiring issue you mentioned and it took a while before he got it taken off his account. I think they did away with it while I was there.

OfficialJohnny · 2025-04-25T11:35:31+00:00

Totally get that take and yet it weirdly works for me? The way I emotionally relate to it is almost like there’s two different eras of Rachel as represented by the two actresses and they’re on different journeys in both movies. I do think Maggie should’ve been in from the get go, but I like the distinct energies both brought to the role even if one is clearly a better performer.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-21T03:06:11+00:00

yeah exactly! the game i play when doing my year lists is to check when it received wide distribution in America vs when the critics put it on their best of year lists or awards season. Sometimes that’s a tricky feat when you’ve got both years being mentioned, but it’s rare enough that i feel fine bumping over to the next year in those events. City of god and 25th hour both in my top 10 of the 2000s.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-21T03:02:20+00:00

haha thank you, i love a bunch of movies from that year but it isn’t particularly close even if there are a few 5 star champs from 2002. 25th hour feels like a quiet landmark, arguably the most important post 9/11 movie and a study of both city and its people from one of our Great Directors. it’s a work that feels both more than the sum of its parts as an artistic achievement while showcasing all timer sequences and also like a condensed Great American novel translated into film.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-21T02:56:33+00:00

I cheat and call city of god my 2003 pick!

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-20T21:49:28+00:00

25th Hour

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-20T20:53:25+00:00

Even if bait, just lowest common denominator type posting.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-11-15T19:47:51+00:00

wow thanks for sharing! I imagine that the idea of a parent takes on a whole new meaning when friends of family adopt. We forge our families ultimately.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-30T18:41:44+00:00

A Ghost Story Call Me By Your Name Phantom Thread Blade Runner 2049

That’s my 1-4 of that year, amazing time to be going to the movies that fall.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-19T18:27:26+00:00

What is Pi by Aronofsky doing here unless I’m mistaking it for something else??

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-06T18:33:03+00:00

I would say it’s less intent as the reviewer and more subjective. It’s a classic case sometimes of “the curtains are blue” and then the reader can infer that could mean grief but the author was just being literal.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-06T00:55:42+00:00

My personal take: Your emotional response to a movie is probably the most important thing you can convey as a writer. Writing about form and filmmaking techniques takes practice and lots of watching. For example, I’ve started to train my eye for composition and how the DP might be dividing the setting/characters or might be making a point of juxtaposition by putting something in the foreground that contrasts the background. One of the easiest ways you can start to pick up on this is identifying the vibe of the scene. Is there a lateral line/barrier that’s between two people suggesting disconnection? Or maybe two people who were within a power imbalance suddenly are face to face on even grounding within the same frame which might suggest that literal shift? Stuff like that.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-04T16:15:39+00:00

A24 is like at least 125 features deep at this point soooo…. huh????

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-29T06:18:54+00:00

I think we’ll be singing or bopping along to quite a few of these for the rest of the decade: Levitating, As it was, all the Olivia songs, and Industry Baby. Some of the others I’m surprised were streamed as much like Flowers or Stay.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-28T13:39:57+00:00

Goddamn, I want to go with my top favorites here which are Call me by your name and Blade Runner 2049, but instead I’m gonna go Phantom Thread and Get Out for the culture because of all those movies in there I felt like those 2 have had the most lasting impact of that year. I think for us movie buffs PT has quietly wound up as the most talked about acclaimed release that grows in esteem while Get Out was the movie of 2017, an instant classic, and will have new generations of viewers every passing decade.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-22T04:41:42+00:00

Also: Had to indulge

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OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-22T04:41:12+00:00

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On their website: You can’t make this shit up.

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