2022 April - Watch List

This month I caught a ton of projects including new masterpieces and old gems.

Five Quick Notes:

• THE BATMAN is an enigma of a film to me. It is fantastic, well constructed, and artistically beautiful. At the same time, it is extraordinarily superfluous in an attempted service of capital C-inema. From almost the first sequence, my mind was twisted. After it finished, I wanted to and did watch it again immediately. It will sit for me for a while.

• HEIST is a classic modern noir that influenced me since childhood. I was happy to catch it on Netflix.

• MISS SLOANE made me long for my days working in D.C. and the excitement of the bloodsport known as politics.

• POLICE STORY is an absolute masterpiece. I always enjoyed Jackie Chan but never fully understood his brilliance as a performer and director.

• TOKYO VICE is a solid television show. Check it out.

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2022 April - Watch List (This Month 21 / Year Total 53)

• ALL THE OLD KNIVES [2022] - Director: Janus Metz Pedersen

• THE BATMAN [2022] - Director: Matt Reeves

• DEATH ON THE NILE [2022] - Director: Kenneth Branagh

• THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE [2021] - Director: Michael Showalter

• GET ON UP [2014] - Director: Tate Taylor

• HEIST [2001] - Director: David Mamet

• THE IMITATION GAME [2014] - Director: Morten Tyldum

• KILLING THEM SOFTLY [2012] - Director: Andrew Dominik

• MALICE AT THE PALACE [2021] - Director: Floyd Russ

• MARGIN CALL [2011] - Director: J. C. Chandor

• MISS SLOANE [2017] - Director: John Madden

• THE PLAYBOOK: DOC RIVERS [2020]

• THE PLAYBOOK: JOSE MOURINHO [2020]

• POLICE STORY [1985] - Director: Jackie Chan

• POLICE STORY 2 [1988] - Director: Jackie Chan

• THE PROTEGE [2021] - Director: Martin Campbell

• QUINCY [2018] - Directors: Rashida Jones, Alan Hicks

• SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS [2021] - Director: Robert Schwentke

• STEVE JOBS [2015] - Director: Danny Boyle

• TOKYO VICE [2022]

• UNTOLD: BREAKING POINT [2021] - Directors: Chapman Way, Maclain Way

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