Hey. What’s up? We’ve got a new pod this week, and it sounds great.

Jake and I talk through the unbelievable John Wick franchise for a bit and then make top-five lists (of course) for the best-looking movies of the 21st century. We use some $5 terms like “cinematography” and “crane shot,” but it really comes down to us thinking something to the extent of hell yeah, that looks cool.

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Hi there.

We’ve got a short Aerial Shot newsletter this week (at least when it comes to writing) as there’s a 90-minute-ish podcast you can listen to. It’s just a bunch of guys talkin’ movies. The first podcast to accomplish such a task. It’s a bit of a mess, but what else would you expect?

If you don’t want to listen or you’ve already listened (thank you) and want to check out some of the films, here are our Top Fives.

Also, since I’m insane, I went through and ranked every new release I saw from 2022 and wrote about each one.

Matt Dlugie

5. The Batman

4. All Quiet on the Western Front

3. The Menu

2. Top Gun: Maverick

1. The Banshees of Inisherin

Jake Richards

5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

4. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

3. The Northman

2. Nope

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once

Ben Wittenstein

5. The Banshees of Inisherin

4. Top Gun: Maverick

3. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

2. The Menu

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once

Jesse Pasternack

5. The Banshees of Inisherin

4. Everything Everywhere All at Once

3. Top Gun: Maverick

2. RRR

1. The Fabelmans

Greg Gottfried

5. Babylon

4. Nope

3. Everything Everywhere All at Once

2. TÁR

1. The Worst Person in the World

Oh, also, Erica sent over her Top Five since she’s on her Bachelorette Party, so that’s here as well.

5. Hocus Pocus 2

4. My Policeman

3. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

2. Everything Everywhere All at Once

1. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Thanks for reading Aerial Shot! It was a pretty good year.

Don’t Worry Darling is missing a comma.

It’s missing a lot of things, but I can’t get over the comma that should be in the title. This is ostensibly a BIG movie. It features an international pop sensation, one of the best young actors in the world (Florence Pugh, of course), a stacked cast and a director coming off of a popular debut.

And yet … they can’t even get the title right. It’s a microcosm of the entire movie, which Erica Steward and I discuss in-depth for the Aerial Shot podcast. We break down what went wrong, the convoluted plot and one of the funnier cinematic twists in recent memory.

This is a must-watch movie, but not always in the ways one would expect. You have to see it and then check out this spoiler-filled podcast.

It’s here.

Aerial Shot has expanded into audio form. This will be a very infrequent addition to this newsletter, but it will be an addition all the same.

The purpose this time? To discuss A24 movies.