The basu! Guide to the Movies

Finally, a museum about the one thing I can actually understand: movies! 😂👏🙏 PS. Talk about your nightmare come to life🦈🦷😱! PPS. Talk about your childhood flash before your eyes😲! PPPS. Pedro('s amazing Technicolor dreamstate)😍! PPPPS. A(n inadvertent) statement about the(tenuous😬😰) future of cinema?!  - - - #AcademyMuseum #MeetTheMovies #LosAngeles #CA - - - @academymuseum @theacademy  #museums #museum #movie #movies #film #films #cinema #art #history #photography #architecture (my idea of #culture😂)  #Oscars #Oscar #TheAcademy #AMPAS #Jaws #Bruce #ET #C3PO #R2D2 #StarWars #PedroAlmodovar #Almodovar  ...and *so* much more!!!

#ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings Terrific, clean martial-arts-meets-#GoT-#Marvel-Phase-4?/5?/6?/Infinity?! fun! I don't know where they found this kid Liu, but he makes for a winning leading man. Awkwafina is funny(as always, TBH *loves* #NoraFromQueens), Chen is heartbreaking, the great Yeoh is reassuringly bad-a**, and *no*one, but no one(and I mean *no*-bl**dy-one) does tragic romantic longing like Leung, but, dude, I have no idea where this other kid Zhang came from, but she steals the whole dang show! C'mon Disney Plus, where's the Xialing spinoff🤘?! • PS. The biggest movie in the States and it's *heavily* subtitled, either the corporate muckety-mucks didn't get the memo about the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, or Feige is a secret Bong-head(aren't we all😁?)👍! [Spoiler Alert!} Sir Ben, we just saw him the other day rewatching #TheSopranos, dude's *hilarious* (that "Liverpudlian" accent🤣!) "The trajectory of your lives is going ...

#TheSuicideSquad Not quite as horrible or beautiful as the marketing would have you believe (& WB marketing is *the* best!) but still absolutely terrific #Tarantino-meets-#TheDirtyDozen-meets-meta-superhero fun! And dude, hear me out, yeah #KingShark is awesome (and [literally]my nightmare come to life😱!), but I think that little bugger Sebastian sorta stole the show, no? Along with #Ratcatcher2 & #PolkaDotMan(remember Dastmalchian from #TheDarkKnight?! Wow😳!). All in all, good fun. [Spoiler Alert!] "What do you want him for?" "Just to save the [bleepin'] (streaming)world!" 😏 - - - #JamesGunn #MargotRobbie #IdrisElba #DanielaMelchior #DavidDastmalchian #ViolaDavis #SylvesterStallone #JaiCourtney #JohnCena #PeteDavidson #MichaelRooker #JoelKinnaman #NathanFillion #FlulaBorg #PeterCapaldi #SuicideSquad #SuicideSquad2 @thesuicidesquad @jamesgunn @wbpictures @hbomax

RIP #NormMacdonald Like certain other men of a certain age, I was a big fan. I accidentally discovered him, back when I had little to no clue about #SNL, or #WeekendUpdate, or even, you-know-who(apart from the Naked Gun movies…). But I was instantly smitten by that weird, quirky rhythm, that irony-with-a-smile-that-doesn't-reach-those-cool-blue-eyes, that dark, subversive humour. So much so that I followed him to his sitcom(s, both of them), to his legendary talk-about-not-reading-the-room-or-wait-was-it-exactly-reading-the-room!? monologue at the #ESPYs, even that strange, meta sports show he did on #ComedyCentral… I guess at some point he became that dreaded/lauded comedian's-comedian(I need to ask my comedy-nerd friends what exactly that means), sadly, I stopped following him as closely at this stage, though I always enjoyed it when his talk show appearances made the rounds. True story, I saw him in Vegas, and I was terrified because I *loved* that guy, but su...

#SweetGirl Good, clean socially-conscious-actioner-made-in-the-Greengrass-house-style-thanks-to-stellar-work-by-PG's-own-DP-Barry-Ackroyd fun. Plus, look at all that awesome #Pittsburgh(even if they chose the wrong #BlackAndYellow team to highlight🤪) scenerey. And, gotta say, Momoa and Merced make a great father-and-daughter team. PS. Jaffrey's criminally under-deployed here(and in most other places, too), c'mon Hollywood, do better! PPS. Arjona's *already* in her "Mom" phase?! C'mon Hollywood, do better! - - - #BarryAckroyd #BrianAndrewMendoza #JasonMomoa #IsabelaMerced #RazaJaffrey #AdriaArjona #AmyBrenneman #ManuelGarciaRulfo #LexScottDavis #JustinBartha #MichaelRaymondJames(great in the #WilliamForsythe role PS. RIP #Terriers😢) @brianandrewmendoza @netflix

RIP #MichaelKWilliams Gone too soon, way too soon. So very, very sad. Just a couple days ago TBH and I saw him on The Sopranos("the Boonton Holiday Inn") and we both did what we've been doing in the years since we saw The Wire: sit up and exclaim "Hey, it's him!" Every time, from roles big to blink-and-you'll-miss-him(The Incredible Hulk!), we always sat up and took notice. Omar from The Wire…funny, when he showed up the first time, even though TW was already lore(as was the legions of people banging you over the head with "You *haven't* seen The Wire?!"), I did not know about him and his outsized presence(and…no, no spoilers here) was such a pleasant surprise, in an age where all surprises are spoiled before you even get a chance to enjoy them. That was part of the enjoyment, no?, "Who is this guy?!" to "Woah, who *is* this guy?!" It was a few years before he started popping up in high profile stuff, but the...