Gavin Schwier 🇨🇦
@gavin27
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” Kurt Vonnegut Canadian, enjoy: movies, music, history(Medieval, Viking/Norse, Gaelic/Celtic, Ancient) Scotland, reading and trying to find happiness.
I rated Sugata Sanshirô (1943) 7/10 #IMDb Kurosawa’s directorial debut. Made during WWII, the hallmarks are there for the Kurosawa styles. Nature metaphors, action sequences, and Takashi Shimura who is almost as quintessentially Kurosawa as Toshiro Mifune #CriterionChannel #moviesky #movies
I rated Straight to Hell (1987) 5/10 #IMDb That was a movie. A vacation in Spain for musicians. 5 minutes of Dennis Hopper Parodying westerns and I get the joke but still, it dragged. Almost gave up on it a few times #CriterionChannel #moviesky #movies #film
ANTIFA Gramps hard at it. Be like your Grandad and fight Fascists at every opportunity #Dday
I rated The Killer (1989) 8/10 #IMDb John Woo strikes again with his favourite copilot Chow Yun Fat. Storyline isn’t groundbreaking but I have to say 35+yrs after it came out how it has influenced pretty much all action movies since. #CriterionChannel #moviesky #movies #HongKongCinema
I rated The Big Hit (1998) 6/10 (nostalgic pity) Second time watching…28yrs later. This screams 90s, but not the best of it. Lou Diamond Phillips is having a blast here. Marky Mark’s acting range is constipated & confused, so no change there. #CritetionChannel #moviesky #movies #IMdB
Came across this in an old post elsewhere and thought it due for a repost #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety
I rated Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) 7/10 #IMDb Sidney Lunet’s last film in a career starting with Twelve Angry Men (1957) Fantastic performances from Hoffman, Hawke, Tomei and Finney Family Christmas ain’t got shit on this. Dark. Therapy anyone? #CriterionChannel #moviesky #movies
I rated The Grandmaster (2013) 9/10 #IMDb Beautiful and hypnotic No wonder it was Oscar nominated for cinematography. Stunning visuals make this worth the watch alone. My first Wong Kar Wai film Tony Leung and Ziyi Zhang are phenomenal. #CritetionChannel #moviesky #movies
I rated Hard Boiled (1992) 8/10 #IMDb Stylized violence that influenced action movies for the next 30+ years Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung star, 2 of the biggest Hong Kong action stars ever. John Woo directed pre Hollywood films Dialogue optional 😂 #CritetionCollection #moviesky #movies
The Fisher King 7/10 Jeff Bridges DJ inspires mass shooting. Guilt spiral to suicide. Homeless Robin Williams saves him and they heal each other. Mercedes Ruehl is fantastic and Oscar winning. Terry Gilliam directs with humanitarian empathy darn near Capraesque #CriterionChannel #moviesky #movies
#goodreads The first Cadfael book by Ellis Peters, so so good. Even better than the show with Derek Jacobi and I LOVE that show
I wonder if you’ve seen an uptick in the interest in Peter and Frank covers with the new movie coming? I always love them because my first Spidey was a Marvel Tales from 1989 with them both.
Drop someone dressed in (or who is) GREEN I present I will take questions
If your country experienced the horrors of World Wars and the Iron Curtain, and decades of tyranny then you just might have a stronger fear of totalitarianism than ones who didn’t Hungarian people, and young people in particular have shown the world how much they value their democracy. Take note. 🥲