Michael Murphy

Film Critic; Editor; Tap Dancer; Emerson College; Montclair; LA; Adrenaline Dance; BostonTapCo.; HandsDownTap; A Clockwork Orange; Homework Beer

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

Emily Blunt kind of on Samantha Morton’s corner in Disclosure Day

[Paul Muad’Dib @trygraptor]

“there’s so much love in this house”

hit this scene in Minority Report and just started crying

Cruise’s reaction plus Samantha Morton’s delivery - so so moving

Spielberg should teach a class on how to do a story about grief that’s not miserable

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

Move to LA where you don’t have to use Fandango or the AMC app to get hotly anticipated movie tickets for new releases playing in premium formats in historical movie palaces

[Yerrr 🇵🇸 @MaceAhWindu]

Nothing made me more unexpectedly emotional than when Andor’s series finale credit score shifted into the classic John Williams Star Wars fanfare credit music

That emotional bomb of a finale and then it reminds you that it’s all a part of the galaxy far, far away.

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

I saw this movie three times in theaters, and every time the whole audience clapped for every cast member in the credit run like a Broadway curtain call, with straight up cheers for Cruise

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

When it cuts back to Bradley staring at the photos and the music swells, you realize oh, will movies ever hit that peak again.

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

Somehow I got Ving Rhames

[kyle🇯🇲🇫🇷 @toofarST]

so does every single letterboxd user on the planet except me have tom cruise as their most watched actor

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

@DPD_ Not even Burbank, sadly. You’ll be deciding between the AMC’s at two other notable LA malls: The Grove and Century City

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

Reds (1981) // Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

So insanely worth it

[Exhibitor Relations Co. @ERCboxoffice]

The price? 4hr 7min of your life.

Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR drops nationwide Dec. 5 in 70mm and 35mm.

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

It’s true

[Vikram Murthi @fauxbeatpoet]

Regret to inform everyone that, yes, it looks better on VistaVision and it’s worth rolling the dice on the finnicky tech.

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

What these photos can’t convey is how pulse pounding the Jonny Greenwood score is during this sequence.

[A Shot @ashotmagazine]

‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ in IMAX 70mm.

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

You’re saying the new Spike Lee movie has weird tonal shifts like it’s a bad thing

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

Best “progressive escalation of a sickness” to be threaded into a performance since Tom Hanks’ head cold in BRIDGE OF SPIES

[Adam Nayman @brofromanother]

Watched EDDINGTON again with my wife; all the extant and compelling discourse notwithstanding I think we can all agree Joaquin Phoenix plays "guy getting and wilfully ignoring an obvious respiratory infection" very well, top-notch nostril control

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

Waterworks

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

See also Better Call Saul, which Andor routinely reminded me of

[bailey @baileylikemovie]

Andor is the rare prequel where the knowledge of where the story ends makes the experience of watching so much richer. Knowing most of the characters you’re watching and bonding with are doomed is what adds this palpable weight to every single exchange. Tony Gilroy is a master.

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

George Lucas deserves more credit as a writer because he planted some sturdy seeds that exceptionally stronger writers, like Tony Gilroy and Rian Johnson, tended into a garden

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

Major bonus tonight at @tcm Film Festival: They screened the One Battle After Another trailer in VistaVision 35mm before their VistaVision double bill of ‘We’re No Angels’ and ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.’

[TCM @tcm]

On this day in 1994, TCM went on the air for the first time!

The first film to air that night was GONE WITH THE WIND, followed by SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, THE PETRIFIED FOREST and CAT PEOPLE.

Thank you for your support! We’ll always have the movies!

[Criterion Channel @criterionchannl]

References in Cameron Crowe's VANILLA SKY (2001) 🧵

Crowe’s heady remake of Alejandro Amenábar’s Spanish science-fiction hit OPEN YOUR EYES (1997) follows Tom Cruise on a metaphysical roller-coaster ride of romance, suspicion, love, sex, dreams—and pop culture references.

[Michael Murphy @MykeMurfee]

30th anniversary screening of Heat at TCM Film Festival at the end of April. Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood. Michael Mann in attendance 🥹🥹🥹

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

The only two times we see Val Kilmer’s character Chris Shiherlis’ beautiful smile in Heat is immediately before two of the worst moments of his life. His acting in this film is so painful and quietly powerful. Kilmer was the steady heartbeat of Heat.