PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Afrika Bambaataa

Movies 2020Beastie Boys StorySpike Jonze

Movies · 2020

Beastie Boys Story

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Ayo Edebiri

Movies 2023BottomsEmma Seligman

Movies · 2023

Bottoms

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Kang Min-hyuk

Also credited as 강민혁

TV 2023CelebrityKim Cheol-kyu

TV · 2023

Celebrity

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Miroslav Tolj

Movies 2020Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of KazakhstanPeter Baynham

Movies · 2020

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Veronica Cartwright

Movies 1979AlienRidley Scott

Movies · 1979

Alien

PEOPLE / 5 WORKS

Zendaya

Movies 2026Spider-Man: Brand New DayDestin Daniel Cretton

too long but a lot to like

Movies · 2026

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Movies 2024Dune: Part TwoDenis Villeneuve

I enjoyed DUNC 1 a lot but felt pretty let down here. Some of my broad complaints: 1- The pacing of the whole thing is very hit or miss. There was too much content for a 2.5 hour movie, this really needed to be a trilogy. If the first third of this movie (Shai Hulud adopting Paul) had been a movie, then the rest had been a movie that would have helped a lot. 2- That first third was also pretty bad. The fights in it make no sense (even for Dune's weird tech/rules). Worse, the romance gave me intense flashbacks to Star Wars prequels. There was some extremely stilted dialog and the chemistry between the leads was no there, I like both of them but this just didn't work. 3- The racial and gender politics of this movie are just bad. I think Dune as a 60s SciFi novel was pretty progressive and interesting. But in 2024 there are a lot of glaring issues. Gendered roles in society have not aged well and there is a lot of implied gender essentialism. Beyond that having all the off-world characters be white is, well, it's the default, but it's a Choice. Beyond the white savior issues all of the leaders of humanity we see are white. And there are ways for that to work and add to the story, but they're not on display here. 4- The best part of these movies is without a doubt the visual design for a lot of things. But unfortunately that's a bit let down with Dune and its deserts being the primary setting. The Fremen and their settlements are not (and can not be) as visually interesting as other parts of the galaxy, and we already saw most of that in the first movie. The shots in the desert are gorgeous but can't compare to how interesting the scenes on the Harkonnen home planet are. 5- The holy war aspect and "fanatics" are poorly handled. We here they're in the south, and there are a lot of them. And I guess some of the people in the big cavern scene are them. But they're faceless and nameless. They're a very important part of the story that only function as a plot device. 5a- The movie has scrubbed a lot of Muslim influence from the Fremen. The language is the most obvious example but we are now given a clearly Muslim inspired people but now divorced from 20th and 21st Muslim revolutionary and well, jihadist politics. 6- I overall like how the film handled Paul's wrestling with destiny/power/etc., but it doesn't have a convincing turn from reluctance to acquiring power. I think this is another area where a third movie would help but we see his reluctance turned to certainty in the span of minutes. I'm glad these films were made, and they do some incredible things, but I think in the balance they can't quite pull it off. I think just increasing the films from 2 to 3 would have resolved a large number of the issues in this film (please more time w.th Lady Jessica!) but as it stands this was a let down. I'll be interested to see where they next movie goes, I do think that Chalamet "turns on" near the end of this film and I suspect the next could be much better. For one thing it will have to give a face and voice to the southern fanatics beyond the limp stand in of Stilgar.

Movies · 2024

Dune: Part Two

Movies 2021Spider-Man: No Way HomeJon Watts

I really loved this, the first Holland Spider-Man movie I really liked, it's a big dumb spectacle movie but it's a big dumb Spider-Man spectacle. Also, please give me more meta-textural cape movies.

Movies · 2021

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Movies 2019Spider-Man: Far From HomeChris McKenna

I've grown more positive with this on time. I think making the second Holland Spider-Man be set in Europe is a crazy idea, but it mostly works, largely because of the school trip framing. Mysterio is a much better villain than in the first movie but the TECHTECHTECH of this movie is a little exhausting. However having the romance feel like it matters is another big step up from the first movie. In the end this is better than Homecoming but still really relies on an incredible cast to carry a weak script.

Movies · 2019

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Movies 2017Spider-Man: HomecomingJoe Simon

a movie with a terrible villain at war with itself. does this want to be a movie about your friendly neighborhood spider-man? if so, why is iron man popping up every 10 minutes? or does it want to be part of the MCU with spider-man dealing with the after effects of Avengers movies? i think it mostly fails at both but the charisma of the cast gets it further than it otherwise would.

Movies · 2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming