Vsevolod Unavoidable

The original Gears Of War trailer spoke directly into your soul. The passion, the direction, it was all perfection.

LOST HIGHWAY is the David Lynch Rosetta stone. So much of it is rebuilding on BLUE VELVET and WILD AT HEART’s ideas. It’s so much a dry run for MULHOLLAND DR, INLAND EMPIRE, THE RETURN, and even THE STRAIGHT STORY with its empathetic depiction of Richard Pryor’s disability

Cannot recommend Communion enough, one of the most fascinating movies of the eighties; you've got riotous moments like this, and it's *also* maybe the best exploration of trauma and its ripple effects on the people you love I've seen in a genre film period? Unbelievable movie.

LECTER: NO WAY HOME.

Disclosure Day (2026)

I know comparing modern society to Idiocracy is really played out but man

This is a great insight about human nature, and what actually satisfies us.

the aliens in the third act of disclosure day:

I’m a firm believer that physics simulation in video games peaked around 2004-2006

EMILY BLUNT asking STEPHEN SPIELBERG if Obsession is scary and if she can watch it

In a new interview, Kathleen Kennedy bluntly called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull the weakest of the four Spielberg-directed Indy films. “But Harrison and Steven were not 100 percent on board. That’s why the movie, out of the four that Steven made, is the weakest.” She explained that Spielberg and Harrison Ford resisted George Lucas’s vision, especially the alien/crystal skull elements, and struggled with the project, even though they ultimately went along with it.

THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) is a masterclass in “frame within the frame” cinematography. Director Sidney J. Furie and cinematographer Otto Heller turned doors, windows, lamps, shelves, file cabinets, walls, and foreground objects into visual architecture. The result is not just “cool framing.” It changes how we watch the film. Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer is constantly boxed in, observed, obstructed, and trapped inside layers of bureaucracy and espionage. The compositions make the audience feel like we are spying on the spy. Every frame has tension. Composition is story.

007 First Light

Usually filmmakers have a one for them or a one for themselves. Disclosure Day was Spielberg making a movie specifically catering to 60 year old divorced guys who take ufo sightings so seriously they make poorly edited YouTube videos where they misinterpret the ways cameras work.

guy next to me lost his mind when the tracking shot of josh o’connor metal gear-maxxing hit, dude literally went “my god, steven”

One of the best action sequences in Spielberg's entire career! Tintin is such a fun movie!