Dear lord… I think I’m traumatized. I’ve been on this Earth a long time and I’ve seen some seriously messed up movies… but The Substance might just be the most f’ed up thing I’ve ever seen in a theater. To … Continue reading
Daddy Hitchcock would be proud. M. Night Shyamalan has made an excellent thriller that would have delighted the master film theorist and audience manipulator. A film that is just as good at being a suspense thriller as it is at … Continue reading
When credits rolled on a tear-filled watch of Origin, I sat there quiet for a moment before mumbling “Well, that was a hell of a thing.” What a powerful but oddly scattershot film that makes a commanding statement. The film … Continue reading
Past Lives is a marvelous, wistful, and thoughtfully romantic film that’s easily going in my top ten of the year. I thought it was about immigrants returning to their homeland and finding out they no longer fit in with the … Continue reading
Wow… Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the most movie I think I’ve ever seen. It’s a wildly over-stimulated, hyperactive, visually stunning, hyper-kinetic, full-tilt boogie, dazzling, chaotic pieces of pop art sensory overload. And it somehow works perfectly. It could have … Continue reading
Despite the fact you can see the gears at work in this film, Guardians 3 did for me what few MCU films have done: it made me genuinely concerned about the characters and it made me care. Care enough to … Continue reading
The Artifice Girl is exactly what I want from a science fiction film. It puts to shame a number of other attempts at representing AI. I hope I’m not overselling it or ascribing greater meaning or intelligence than it deserves. … Continue reading
Babylon might not be a movie where all of its disparate themes, ideas, and plots come together, but I had a hell of a time just going along for the ride. Such a manic, thoughtful blunderbuss of a film about … Continue reading
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 edition) is one of the best anti war movies based on one of the best anti war books. It’s a grueling slog in the way World War I warfare was a grueling slog. … Continue reading
RRR was at my local theater for a few weeks but I just never made the time. So I was very happy to see it suddenly show up on Netflix. It’s a three hour long epic that I thought I … Continue reading