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Why The Movies Will Never Feel The Same Again

August 27, 2025August 28, 2025 by ciono

This video essay really resonated with me, and I thought folks would enjoy the deep dive. Bonus content while I keep writing the other stuff.

The Bride!, 2026
Watched at Starlight Drive-In. Still mulling my rating.
F1, 2025 - ★★★½
Last Summer there was a fascinating interview with Joseph Kosinski on The Big Picture podcast. A major focus of the interview was on Kosinki’s cameras and camera work. As with many in Hollywood, Kosinski has been focused of late on practical effects over CGI (ironic since he started off in computer graphics). That meant for […]
The Phoenician Scheme, 2025 - ★★★★
I’m loving Wes Anderson’s recent run of movies and shorts. I’m later to the Anderson train than most, picking up somewhere around Fantastic Mr Fox or Grand Budapest. I still haven’t gone back and caught all the earlier films, though I watched both versions of Bottle Rocket recently so I’m on the way. And while […]
Porco Rosso, 1992 - ★★★★½
The timeliness of this movie -"I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."
Scream VI, 2023 - ★★★ (contains spoilers)
This review may contain spoilers. Entry 6 in the Scream series announces itself, quite literally, as a franchise. And with a franchise, there come some new rules. No one is safe, except…well all of the returning characters. Despite that, this film still served as a gruesomely entertaining romp through NYC. The twist in the first […]