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Batman's Legacy...is The Dark Knight's Joker!

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Christopher Nolan knows what he's doing... A fter three successful films that explored the dynamics of a superhero whose past portrayals on the big screen had been comically and seriously portrayed through TV performances and on the big screen by Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton and absurdly by George Clooney; no one could expect a decent crime detective drama that an Academy of Motion Pictures would take seriously, but Nolan decided to make just that. And it just so happens to be one of the best trilogies in the modern era of cinema. An instantly quotable, deep and symbolic crime detective thriller, that just so happens to feature as it's guest performance, the Detective: The Batman and the scene stealer: The Joker. C hristopher Nolan's idea for this genuine and real version of storytelling did exactly this. It was to start from the very first beginnings of the comic book hero, an origin story with a slight twist, everything would be as if it was based in the reality

Wind River (otherwise known as...being a little late to the show)

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W ind River was released in 2017, I missed it on the big screen, but it was on my radar, because it was from the writer & now director Taylor Sheridan, and he had created an intense emotional drama, set in a frozen wilderness in Wyoming on a Native American Reservation called Wind River. A young woman is found dead in the snow by Jeremy Renner's Cory Lambert who is a veteran tracker for the Fish & Wildlife Service. So he knows the land better than anyone. (Renner's best performance so far). And when the investigation deepens enough to bring in the FBI, Elizabeth Olsen's rookie Jane Banner (no relation to Bruce Banner aka Incredible Hulk) #Avengersreference is brought in to investigate. The film's location is a presence in the film that becomes it's own character. The snowy mountains of Wyoming is uncompromising, especially to Jane who is the nearest FBI agent flown in from Las Vegas, so she has to borrow clothes from Cory's daughter who pass

Lady Bird- pre-view

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I am FINALLY watching Lady Bird  this afternoon after over 4 months of waiting for the UK release. I hate it when you get a film later than the rest of the world. Because you hear the great things about the film, but you can't watch it yet. So my anticipation for this film is at an all time high. I know the performances are going to be great because Saoirse Ronan has not made a dull film yet. I trust Greta Gerwig to produce a perfect film, she is a great performer as an actress, she writes really fully formed characters. This film is more of a personal film for her, because it's an almost auto-biographical film, it's set in Sacramento California, where Gerwig grew up as a teenager, it takes place in a Catholic school which Gerwig actually didn't attend in high school, but she wanted to add the feeling of being in an environment that is very much the place you want to rebel against as a teenager going through the angst all teens go through. I hav