Pretty sure .....

the guy who fell asleep during Rogue One had trouble getting into the bland action sequences, stilted dialogue, and CGI landscapes that have come to mark this wretched fucking franchise.

why do we hate ourselves?

why doesn't Weinstein have the balls to fund a silent feature-length film about gay hitmen who scale the Pyrenees in search of their next mark? Get outside the fuckin' box! 

always ballsy .....

for a star to direct himself and doubly ballsy to adapt August Wilson to the screen 'cause what if it sucks and I'm sure "Fences" doesn't suck 'cause it's in the capable hands of Denzel still kudos to him for showin' such balls. 

Viola Davis is the shit too. Central Falls, stand up! 

wow, can't believe how .....

naive Brett Easton Ellis was to think his Batman comments wouldn't be misconstrued and taken wildly outta context what fuckin' town does he think he's livin' in?

These people are all vapid motherfuckers with nothing better to do than get their panties in a bunch over pop culture.

And btw, fuck Ellis for deriding Chiron as one-dimensional. The adult Chiron would kick his ass.

The adult Chiron probably does have varied interests but Ellis is just too fuckin' obtuse to see that shit.

Y'all feel me? Hope Ben Affleck ripped him a fuckin' new one in that e-mail. I suspect he did.

an oft-overlooked .....

element of "Moonlight" is the sound design.

classic soul Cuban ritmo reggae splash locates it firmly in Miami. Makes it Miami.

place should be character, always.

place is paramount. that's why I'm glad Chiron bumps "Classic Man" in that scene towards the end, in the car with the other dude.

Good shit. 

had I known .....

that Rex Ingram built a studio in France I would've visited when I was there and I bet he fuckin' resented bein' lampooned in "Tender Is The Night" and I bet he could hold his liquor way better than Fitzgerald and I bet he got more pussy than he did too.

And I bet he passed on adapting "The Beautiful and Damned" for the screen which probably got Fitzgerald's nose outta joint.

Right?

Whatever. Ingram was an uncompromising giant of the silent era and even did okay in the talkies. I have zero use for critical appraisals that are less than kind. Those academics are pricks.

a friend .....

texted an enthusiastic review of "Manchester by the Sea" and said his one complaint was the heavy-handed use of classical music.

His phrasing, not mine.

And I value his opinion, but after watching the film I happen to disagree. The loss depicted is the worst possible kind.

Unendurable.

Epic in scope. Hence the music. Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams will both get Oscar nods.

Certain critics ......

will deride "Certain Women" for its stillness but what the fuck.

look deeper.

Laura Dern & Michelle Williams are incapable of false notes. Ever.

the photography here is miraculous. the journey is soft and haunting and at times wrenching as fuck. I'll say it again:

wrenching as FUCK!