April 2022 Favorite Watches & Lukeadamy Awards

That month I binged a bunch of Marvel shows and it was really unsatisfying

Top Ten Favorite Watches of the Month:

​Very questionable accents aside, it’s a solid character-driven action-thriller with the welcome MCU addition of Florence Pugh and her nuanced and compelling acting style.

​Warning: contains high-octane insanity and one of the most absurd action climaxes I’ve seen in a minute.

​I think the biggest thing I took away from this mini-series is that Kathryn Hahn can get it.

The writing is downright abysmal but thankfully the cast has enough charm to pull it off. And I too will be hopping on the Andrew Garfield bandwagon because his timing and delivery are immaculate here.

​The stellar choreography makes for some electrifying fight scenes, like the scaffolding battle which made me clench my butthole with such force I suctioned myself to the couch.

​Fantastic screenplay, great editing, blood-pumping score, smart direction; my only real issue is that there’s a protagonist named Kyle.

​Apocalyptic cinema without any of the survival drama or excitement. Just pure hopelessness in an utterly meaningless existence where life has atrophied. Great stuff. Thanks, Béla.

​The last two episodes get clumsy and aggravating, constantly portraying people who want a world without borders as misguided quasi-fascists who deserve to die, and perpetuating the deluded idea that you have to play by the system’s rules to change anything - but I think the first four episodes are some of the best content Marvel has to offer and handle the issues with much more complexity!

​Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay’s powerful and self-assured debut, where childhood innocence and brutal reality collide in a decaying rat-infested Glasgow.

Kelly Reichardt’s patented strain of slow cinema becomes the perfect breeding ground for tension and paranoia in this expertly crafted, nearly action-less dramatic thriller about radical environmentalists.

April Lukeadamy Awards:

Legacy Award goes to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for giving us such a dense, imaginative, and boundless comic book universe that their adaptations continually push the technical limitations of the form while giving us modern-day myths in some of the most memorable heroes and villains to hit the big screen in the 21st century.

​•Best Picture - Ratcatcher (Dir. Lynne Ramsay)
​•Best Actor - William Eadie (Ratcatcher)
​•Best Actress - Florence Pugh (Black Widow)
​•Best Director - Kelly Reichardt (Night Moves)
​•Best Supporting Actress - Dakota Fanning (Night Moves)
​•Best Supporting Actor - Peter Sarsgaard (Night Moves)
​•Best Original Screenplay - Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt & Jonathan Raymond)
​•Best Adapted Screenplay - The Trial, based on the novel by Franz Kafka (Orson Welles)
​•Best Cinematography - The Turin Horse (Fred Kelemen)
​•Best Original Score - The Batman (Michael Giacchino)
​•Best Film Editing - Ratcatcher (Lucia Zucchetti)
​•Best Sound Editing - The Batman
​•Best Visual/Special Effects - Spider-Man: No Way Home
​•Best Production Design - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Sue Chen)
​•Best Costume Design - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Kym Barrett)
​•Best Hair/Make-up - Con Air (Nina Kraft) [Nicolas Cage’s hair deserves every award]
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​Supercut song credit is Ghost Vision’s remix of “Little Dark Age” by MGMT, from their 2018 album of the same name.