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If you wanna check out my Substack, I belated put up an annotated top 20 list of my favorite movies of 2023, with links to where I wrote about them, if applicable. (It is applicable to most of the top 10, at least!)
Jesse Hassenger
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Jesse Hassenger
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Writer & editor for hire. // @TheAVClub @decider @GQMagazine etc // DMs open // Pretty good with words but words won't save your life.
- Every day, Mark Wahlberg goes to bed at the same hour as a kindergartener, wakes up in the dead of night, and works out six to eight times, maintaining peak physical performance in order to make the worst dogshit movies you've seen in your life
- I often enjoy Deadpool's fourth-wall breaks but I don't know that any of them have topped TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES ending with Robin frantically screaming at the children in the audience to ask their parents how babies are made.
- Thinking about this more, I feel like Adrien Brody is the first person I've ever seen implore the orchestra to stop playing them off while seemingly having no particular idea about what they wanted to say with that extra time.
- There's a new movie on Hulu "starring" Chuck Norris where he is only on screen by himself for largely motionless close-ups that were clearly green-screened in, and clearly using a dummy for group shots. I fear he may be dead.
- The CG is amazing. It's a photorealistic rendering of what it would be like to see a young Mark Hamill give a horrible, robotic performance without any of his pesky human charm or gravitas. Basically a techno-punishment for loving his great work in THE LAST JEDI.
- "I'm sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman."
- Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long And wouldn't it be nice to live together In the kind of world where we belong?
- The rare much-deserved award that's a simultaneous travesty.โREBEL RIDGEโ wins the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie.
- Movie directors at the turn of the century only wanted one thing
- AMC Stubs A-List heat check: My Stubs subscription costs $300 annually. This year I used it to buy 61 movie tickets, meaning I paid an average of approximately $4.92 per ticket. Also, 18 of those $4.92 tickets were for IMAX or Dolby presentations.
- Here it is, the only movie list that matters: My 9-year-old daughter's ranking of the 24 movies from 2024 that she saw in theaters. She would like to clarify that she would give all of them at least three stars, save the bottom two or so, which she was more mixed on.
- I like plenty of movies that don't have great cinematography. (For example, this exact movie.) This obsessive need to treat globally popular movies as immaculate craftsmanship is... weird. It's very weird.Enough nitpicking and empty criticism. Letโs take a moment to appreciate how phenomenal No Way Homeโs camerawork and cinematography were during this scene
- Early word out of the first THUNDERBOLTS screenings is ecstatic, so let's take a look at some reactions from GeekSpill, NerdGunk, HeroGeek, MovieBite, ScreenGorge, GeekThis, ComicsChunder, FanDozer, Cash4Blood, French Connection UK, Looming Attractions, HealSquad with Maria Menou
