The Deep Blue Sea
The dreaminess, theatricality and gravitas of this film feels closely akin to Solaris, stylistically and tonally. Odd bedfellows, a romantic melodrama and a science fiction freak out. So haunting, vivid … Continue reading
A Late Quartet
This was a very impressive first feature film by Zilberman. Great performances by Hoffman, Keener, and Ivanir. Walken could have given a bit more, his performance was a little too … Continue reading
The Imposter
An interesting story told excruciatingly drawn out over double the time it should have taken. A note to the director: this film takes too much stylistically from Errol Morris, find … Continue reading
Holy Smoke!
This film seems intentionally cartoonish and is clunkily written. Jane Campion’s bad taste strikes again! This poor attempt at confronting and confounding gender roles is as sloppy and inadequate as … Continue reading
Haywire
You could actually feel how tedious this was for Soderbergh to direct, the rote blocking of chase scenes and the requisite twists and flashbacks. I had as much fun watching … Continue reading
Killer Huh?
Killer Joe is a sick day movie for rape enthusiasts. This carnival of perversion was entertaining, but in a way that makes you wonder why we go to the movies, … Continue reading
House of Cards: David Fincher’s Foucauldian Power Dialectic As Evinced By the Liminal Portrayal of the Feminine Moustache
Netflix’s flagship tv series plays a lot like a typical soap opera-large swaths of tedium with some intrigue peppered in. The one thing that makes this series different, I suppose, … Continue reading
V/H/S
This amateur piece of bro-dom is more like a Budweiser commercial than a discrete film. In a series of faux verite vignettes, it manages to be a tedious bro montage … Continue reading
Why In The Cut Hates Women more than Breast Cancer and Oliver Stone Combined
I found myself pretty shocked by Jane Campion’s film, In the Cut, mainly because it was directed by a woman, and not by Martin Luther or L. Ron Hubbard. Not … Continue reading
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