The basu! Guide to the Movies

#Reminiscence Tremendous, clean #EternalSunshine-meets-#Inception-meets-#HardRain-meets-#Elysium-meets-#Brazil -meets-#Chinatown fun! The #Westworld gang's reunited and it feels so good. That's some feature debut from young Joy. And the cast gives it their all: Curtis(where's this on his ethnicity bingo card?), Wu(was his character called a Saint for those abs😳?!), #Wolverine(who makes for a fine tragic romantic hero), the great Ferguson(doesn't do her own stunts, but definitely does her own singing👏!), and Newton(who steals, the whole dang show). And, boy, talk about sticking the landing(😕🤤), somewhere fellow young Chazelle nods in approval👍 Wait, is this gigantic enterprise a metaphor(?allegory🤷‍♀️?) for dementia?! - - - #Lisa Joy #RaminDjawadi #JonathanNolan #RebeccaFerguson #HughJackman #ThandiweNewton #CliffCurtis #DanielWu #AngelaSarafyan #NatalieMartinez #BretCullen @reminiscencefilm @lisajoynolan @wbpictures @hbomax

RIP #CharlieWatts Per all the critics, one of *the* most important parts one of *the* most important rock n' roll bands of all time. Me? I'm no critic, but I loved that guy. Ever since I was a kid, for whatever reason(okay it was #TheBeatles cartoon and finding out how funny #RingoStarr was!) I always loved the drummer. And Watts was such a cool-cat customer, especially compared to his histrionic bandmates, how could you not love that guy?! After growing up hearing all about #TheRollingStones, the first CD(yeah, I'm *that* old) I bought of theirs was #VoodooLounge, only to discover, to my horror, that the version of "Love Is Strong" QBS had been playing was, in fact, a super-awesome remix, and the version of the album was nothing like it. But I gave the whole CD a listen(back then you had to listen to the *whole* thing), and it was actually pretty good…and then, snap-zoom/flash-cut forward *many* years and there's Ralph Fiennes in Guadagnino-Land,...

#Nobody Very good, very un-clean(😵!) I-didn't-have-#Odenkirk-on-my-#Neeson-late-stage-#ChekhovsGun(🤓😏)-one-man-action-bingo-card fun! Kudos to the DP and those delectable gleaming nighttime exteriors (and I normally whinge about digital cinematography). Kudos, too, to the kid director, who gets a second, ahem, shot, after the Hardcore Henry debacle and more than redeems himself. Kudos to the producers, who could've phoned it in as an DTV actioner; instead of doing a cheapie, looks like they put some serious cash in the budget. Who are these people👏?! Kudos, OMBG, *all* the kudos, to the great Lloyd, he of, ya know, the *original* #TheDreamTeam(🤓😏); first time I ever heard the term degausser, of course, I thought it was de-gas-ser, but that's a TBT story for another day… PS. So in Act I(according to all the screenwriting manuals I never read), our protagonist is supposed to be dissatisfied with his status quo, but the dude is happily married to a su...

#F9 "Just obey the laws of physics" Why start now 🤣?! Good, clean those-crazy-b**tards-finally-did-it-they-broke-the-final-frontier fun! Just switch off your brain and go with the *insane* flow(& whatever you do, don't get into a TBH-wait-why-did-X-happen? discussion afterwards😂!). So, wait, Fast and the Furious made it to space before Branson/Bezos/Musk?! Maybe they're just setting up F10: Dom v Billionaires in Space🤔🤣? Speaking of…the kid playing Dom's younger self is terrific! Maybe he can do a #YoungDiesel spinoff, keep it in the corporate family and pair it with #YoungRock on #NBC(as long as there are no crossovers😏)?! PS. Stay for the end-credits stinger🤭! - - - #JustinLin #CharlizeTheron #VinDiesel #MichelleRodriguez #VinnieBennett #JohnCena #NathalieEmmanuel #SungKang #TyreseGibson #Ludacris #JordanaBrewster #HelenMirren #KurtRussell #CardiB #Ozuna #SheaWhigham #MichaelRooker #LucasBlack (whew…anyone else😮?!) #Fast...

#SpaceJamANewLegacy Good, clean career-sequel-building fun. Man, I can't believe it's been how many years since #SpaceJam😱?! We took our nephew and the kid loved the movie…and now he's all grown up with a significant other, his own place, a Master's…when did that happen?! Yikes! Is it meta? I mean, they're making fun of the "algorithm"(Cheadle, having the time of his life, like he always does these days)…only to release it all on HBO Max…that's pretty meta, no? Wait, speaking of meta…the whole thing with the middle kid(Joe, stealing the show), that's not meta is it? Tell me #LeBron's the post-character-arc fun dad/teammate in real life😬🙏!!! PS. *Every*one hates Clippy, er, I mean Pete…Pete😂 PPS. "Somebody's gotta do something, just give me the ball!"🤣😳 PPPS. "Any device with a camera I can see you, if it's got a mic, I can hear you…"😱😱😱😱😱 PPPPS. RIP #MelBlanc😢🙏 - - - #MalcolmDL...

#RoadrunnerAFilmAboutAnthonyBourdain Decorous, well-mannered retrospective of a decidedly un-decourously-well-mannered if-he-wasn't-real-they'd-have-to-make-him-up-larger-than-life-all-too-human character. By now, Neville's a pro's-pro at this sorta thing, and he deploys his usual skill with great efficiency to bring Bourdain's remarkable life into (soft)focus. If you're searching for answers, look elsewhere(as one almost always must), if you want to be reminded of why you were such a fan in the first place, then, well, this is as good a place to start as any. I was lucky enough to have seen Bourdain live once, and he wasn't what I was expecting. Yeah, he was blindingly charismatic, yeah, everyone's eyes turned to him, but he wasn't the take-charge/no-prisoners, garrulous, suck-up-all-the-oxygen(boy, would he have hated this writing😬!) look-ma/at-me star the Q&A crowd had become accustomed to. Instead, he was thoughtful, funny, charming...

RIP #RichardDonner Made *so* many of my favourite movies, in fact, he's that proverbial movie "soundtrack" to all our youths, no? Because of the vagaries(?📚) of growing up outside of the US where movie availability and release dates were intrinsically not intertwined, it's a little hard to pinpoint which was the first movie of his I saw, and when did I see it? Was it Superman II, which I'm almost positive I watched for *years* before Superman, but then again, was it his movie(?man, I gotta put that film degree to work sometime…). It wasn't Ladyhawke was it, sadly, it wasn't even Goonies(shhh…don't tell anyone…I watched it…in college😱!), was it, OMBG, it couldn't have been Omen, could it😳?! That's a story for another TBT day… At some point during that run between Goonies and Lethal Weapon 4, it must've seemed like every superbly-crafted, mainstream, mid-budget theatrical film was a Donner. Boy, what would Hollywood give for one o...