Fatal Skies (1990)

Darren Arronofsky focuses on diverse and heartbreaking stories about the human experience.

In this high-flying mission, the pups gear up with jets to stop the Duke of Flappington and save Barkingburg.

Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they've rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does, in so many words, sum up the foundational gist of of this new feature film from writer Seth Reiss ("The Menu") and director Kogonada ("The Acolyte", "After Yang"). Yet, it's all only the set-up for the REAL wonder of everything that happens before, during, and in the aftermath of a magical, meaningful journey.

I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.

As a huge fan of Sean Baker’s Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket, I’ve wanted to watch Anora since before it even was released. But life got in the way, my watchlist grew, and honestly, the fact that it was marketed as a romantic comedy put me off. Even with all the critical praise and the five Academy Awards it won last year, I just kept postponing it indefinitely.

A short film that begins with the language of romance but slowly reveals something far more unsettling beneath the surface.