PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Paul Giamatti

Movies 2021Gunpowder MilkshakeNavot Papushado

Movies · 2021

Gunpowder Milkshake

PEOPLE / 2 WORKS

Steven Spielberg

Movies 2018Ready Player OneSteven Spielberg

This is very very very bad. Do not watch it, the visuals aren't even interesting.

Movies · 2018

Ready Player One

Movies 1985The GooniesRichard Donner

Movies · 1985

The Goonies

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Taro Yamamoto

Also credited as 山本太郎

Movies 2000Battle RoyaleKinji Fukasaku

I'd not seen this movie in 20 years and I remembered is as a campy, gory film with unexpected influence. And that really sells it short, this is a great movie, full stop. There is a reason this movie launched a sub genre of both fiction and video games, it nails so many things. I think what struck me most viewing it again was how the movie has a dozen vignettes we get to see play out. Friendships, rivalries, and cliques all play the same game to much the same result, but the film does a great job of establishing all of this at lighting speed. There is the main through-line with the leads but their classmates get a ton of screen time which lends the entire affair a huge degree of verisimilitude. Oh, also if you can catch the 25th anniversary screening it starts an interview with the writer, Kenta Fukasaku which is really interesting as his dad directed this.

Movies · 2000

Battle Royale