To begin with, this was possibly the most auspicious theater experience I've ever had. I started my Easter Sunday with an everything bagel (maybe my first everything bagel? I don't know, I don't normally like bagels. This one was fantastic though, shoutout to the Avo and Egg from Zocalo in IV); Andrew spent the…

How do you breathe new life into a franchise seven movies deep? By giving the penultimate installment over to Death.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is bookended by it, opening with Charity Burbage's echo of "Severus, please" and closing with Dobby's utterance of "Harry Potter". Yet no other speaking character dies on screen in the time between those moments; instead of immature attempts at shock by ruthlessly killing characters off, there's only the examination of the losses…

The first watch of the year (if last year is any indication, this won't be the only watch this year) and it was magnificent. I love watching movies with y'all, and getting to show you this one was honestly something I'd been looking forward to for a long time. Just seeing you all there was enough to warm my heart, but the reactions and how much fun y'all had watching it made this viewing something real special! And now I…

I'd forgotten the movie opened in Oakland, so that was a nice surprise when I started the movie while sitting in the Oakland airport.

Every actor here knocks it out of the park. The VFX are infamously subpar and there are a few cheesy/cliché moments, but the solid story and performances make up for it. The three biggest stars of the film as a whole, though, are truly the costuming and visual invention of Wakanda itself, the jubilant, exhilarating, bar-raising…

First of all, RIP William Hurt. I don't know much about him, but he was perfect as Secretary Ross.

As for my thoughts:

This MCU rewatch is doing wonders for its own movies because this is maybe the most I've enjoyed Lieutenant Libertarian: The Winter Soldier 2 yet.

Name any part of this movie and it's great. I even used to say the movie would be better if the conflict arose without Zemo, but his character was so well-realized that…

I'd legitimately convinced myself in the year since I first saw this that Antonia still attacked Natasha for ruining her life after Nat exposed her to the counteragent gas, because that's what a better story would do - instead of saying that everything between the girl who's lived a half-life since childhood and the woman who did that to her is water under the bridge. My mistake (but is the mistake really mine?).

I did appreciate the brief commentary on…

I think this is the first time I've watched this since I was six and I saw it in theaters. Want to know how I know I was six? Because my seven birthday was WALL•E-themed. And it's just as delightful and lovable now as it was fourteen years ago.

I I saw this with my grandparents that first time in theaters and they...didn't like it? My parents asked them how we liked it and I said I loved it…