Welcome to the first installment of the 8s! If you’ve listened to the podcast, then you know that I am taking the year to watch films from years that end in 8. In the coming months, I will be going back and updating my 2008 lineup (the 1998 lineup was done pretty recently so it’s not
Movies can be about ideas, they can be about plot. They can be about characters and mood and images and anything you want them to be. What movies shouldn’t be is an amalgamation of all of these that doesn’t allow the film to rise above. Blade Runner 2049 has some incredible and admirable elements but