![]() Inspired by Crowe’s earlier career as a music journalist, the film follows a teen named William (played by Patrick Fugit) who scores an assignment from Rolling Stone to write a story on an up-and-coming band named Stillwater. One of the best films ever made about music, Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” is a timeless classic. (Great, rubbery monsters too.) – Drew Taylor But taken at face value – a high-concept R-rated studio comedy featuring famous actors and a narrative loose enough to let them have fun (the eventual script was co-written by Seth Rogen and his partner Evan Goldberg) – “The Watch” feels like something of a lost gem, one ripe for rediscovery. And even now the idea of a predominantly white cast stalking around an affluent neighborhood and roughing people up, no matter how funny feels a little iffy. The name of the movie changed from “Neighborhood Watch” to “The Watch” only two months before its release, leaving the marketing and publicity teams to scramble due to the death of Trayvon Martin. – Adam Chitwoodįor an amiable, “Ghostbusters”-style comedy where a bunch of goofballs (Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade) start a neighborhood watch in their sleepy town and wind up uncovering an alien conspiracy, “The Watch” has been oddly controversial. But Chazelle manages to combine the fantastical with the grounded, allowing us to feel deeply for what these individuals are going through (and root for them hard). Their paths cross, stars align, and a head-over-heels romance ensues. – Drew Taylorĭamien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning (but not Best Picture-winning) “La La Land” is at once a joyful Hollywood musical and a somber story of what we sacrifice to make our dreams come true, and is a terrific watch whether you loved or hated Chazelle’s recent polarizing Hollywood epic “Babylon.” Ryan Gosling is an aspiring jazz musician and Emma Stone is an aspiring actress, both just trying to make it big in Los Angeles. This movie is thrilling and contemplative in equal measure it’s rare that a modern blockbuster is this invested in feeling as much as it is in thrilling. And if you haven’t seen it yet, the warped anamorphic photography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw is absolutely stunning. ![]() ![]() And for the most part “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” works it is more emotional heft than virtually any other Marvel Studios project and has admirably grand ambition (director/co-writer Ryan Coogler said that he was inspired by James Cameron films in particular), weaving in a plotline about a warring underwater nation (led by Tenoche Huerta’s Namor) and Wakanda’s quest for a successor to T’Challa’s mantle. After all, the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman in 2020 (he was only 43) led to a radical overhaul of the much-cooler-sounding screenplay and the resulting has a weird, cathartic pseudo-documentary quality, as we are watching characters mourning the loss of their friend being played by actors who are mourning the loss of their friend. The sequel to 2018’s zeitgeist-capturing “Black Panther” was always going to be difficult to pull off.
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