Things I think about after watching "Doctor Strange"

Not since Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet do I feel that Hollywood has produced a movie that uses slowed down and sped up sequences - within shots and next to each other - quite like in Doctor Strange. It's a film that uses the concepts and general notions of time and space as more than eye candy but not beyond visual splendor. It's a carefully constructed piece for sure, but never rides the line of truly blowing minds - it clearly wants to keep us as grounded as possible.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk comes out soon from Ang Lee. There, Lee experiments with the speed and time of the very frames to produce images and moments designed to push and maybe break boundaries between screen and seat.

It's also being called a cinematic heresy, breaking rules and the natural order of movies.

Doctor Strange teases us with literal environments beyond imaginative reach, and Billy Lynn looks to hand some of them to us in the most visceral of ways. We are close to the brink, people.