8 1/2 - A movie that never fails to make me excited about movies in general. One of my absolute favorites.

Eyes Without a Face - Very cool French horror flick from the 60s. It’s common knowledge that it was the inspiration for Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, but I can also see echoes of it in Ex Machina. Worth checking out of that’s your bag.

Darling - Very basic from a story standpoint, which I could see turning a lot of people off, but it was so artfully executed and Lauren Ashley Carter had such weird charisma that I felt those shortcomings were more than compensated for. Polanski’s early psychological thriller/horror stuff gets mentioned a lot in the reviews I’ve read, and I don’t disagree.

Hail, Caesar! - Definitely minor Coens, but fun as hell. I got the distinct impression the whole thing was an excuse to shoot the set pieces from the fake 50s movies, and I’m fine with that because they were delightful. I feel really good about Alden Ehrenreich playing Han Solo after seeing this.