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Richard Linklater is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time... no question. A true hero of cinema. A guy who never sold out, never moved to Hollywood, never stopped making his  kind of movies. He’s an artist who stayed home in Austin, Texas, where he’s from, and built a career doing things on his own terms. He’s one of the great American directors, a genuine champion of independent film, and a storyteller who somehow manages to make the most everyday moments feel absolute

NOTE: In this post, anytime that I compliment and/or rave about some of the huge special effects/action sequences in the new movie "Twisters," please keep in mind that all of the phenomenal scenes in this film (or in any other 2024 movie for that matter), absolutely PALE in comparison to the stuff in "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," and especially in "Dune Part Two." Those two films (again, especially "Dune Part Two") are the Gold Standard by which to compare any of the big spec