Kill is an Indian action film with an economy of storytelling, screen-time, and even action. Its a quick hour and forty minutes and gets to the point very quickly with some gnarly, brutal action scenes. And even some surprising story … Continue reading
Ghostlight crept up on me as I was watching and slapped me in the face with how good it was. It was never bad… but it kind of hid its point and its direction well so once I saw where … Continue reading
Welcome to a new kind of Mad Max… not the pure action rumpus of Road Warrior or Fury Road or the heroism storyline of Beyond Thunderdome or the… whatever the original film was. This is more of a lengthy epic … Continue reading
When I heard this film was directed by Jane Schoenbrun, the woman who did We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, I was both intrigued and worried. While I liked World’s Fair, its vibe was cryptic and weird enough to … Continue reading
Turtles All The Way Down on (HBO) Max may have, for some, a rough, borderline cringe feel to its comedy and I get it. The flick sometimes does feel a bit much… plus it has a weird Nancy Drew subplot … Continue reading
The dictionary definition of mess is this film. A slide into disorder and chaos where nobody is right and a solution may not even exist. It’s not a horror movie… but it is a nightmare. This German film is set … Continue reading
Dune Part Two is a different type of epic sci-fi than part 1. Part 1 ends at the exact right moment, right before Part 2’s broader scope and slower pacing This is kind of evidenced by the 1984 Dune which … Continue reading
Stopmotion is really messed up. That’s an easy descriptor for weird cinema but when it’s applicable, it’s applicable. This is one seriously messed up movie that starts pretty sane and goes bugnuts by the end. It’s about a woman trying … Continue reading
I avoided Beyond Utopia last year because I was suspicious of the movie. It’s a documentary about escaping North Korea and I figured it’d be pretty one-sided, maybe even faked… so watching a 2 hour anti-Korean propaganda piece was concerning. … Continue reading
I’m thrilled I didn’t have the slightest clue what this movie was going in. I just knew it had buzz. When it begins at Oxford with a golden boy and an average guy, I wondered if it was going to … Continue reading