Let’s be real, this movie is not going to be for everyone. But for a certain kind of person in a certain kind of movie watching population… this is going to be exactly what you wanted. Late Night with the Devil is a B-movie in the best possible way. It was obviously made on a…Read more
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The Menu review: Just let people do what they’re good at
My opinion of The Menu is meta and, like an ogre, has layers. Inside and outside the movie it comes down to a simple idea: Find people who are good at what they do, and then let them do that. Is it a movie about a perfectionist staring down the barrel of their career and…Read more
Sante Sangre: Wait, is this accessible Jodorowsky?
Hang on. Did I like this movie? I am biased here. I don’t have the greatest relationship with Jodorowsky’s work. His most lauded works come from an era when people were very In Touch with Spirituality. There is usually a whole lot of Symbolism happening, and while I can understand it on an intellectual level,…Read more
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: Mad God review
When I first saw that Shudder was getting the streaming rights to Mad God, I was very excited. It was one of those movie stories that appealed to me: 30 years to make, iconic filmmaker, abandoned and picked up again a decade later… There is, of course a danger in setting up this sort of…Read more
I don’t understand why people didn’t like The Batman
So I finally got around to watching The Batman. I liked it way more than I expected it. I love that this dark and gritty “realism” that the DCEU has for some reason hitched its wagon too is being finally translated through an actual comic book lens. The ability for these franchises to have this…Read more
A Bisexual Watches Cruising (1980)
So Criterion Channel has a very interesting series called Queersighted, which highlights LGBT+ movies and filmmakers throughout the history of movies. I do like this series because it really opens a door to both queer reality and societies perception of queer folx throughout time. And one of the movies in the most recent entries is…Read more
So close to good: I Am a Ghost review
Well… with great promise comes great disappoint when the story falls flat. This movie had me for about sixty percent of the runtime. The whole first half is a beautiful study in building suspense and developing character in a nearly dialogue-free sequence. It is definitely something I will be studying. There are subtle hints, and…Read more
POV in John Cassavetes’s The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
I am currently making my way through the Criterion collection on Kanopy, and I came across an interesting film from 1978, called The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. On paper, it’s a pretty standard mob crime story: the owner of a strip club gets in too deep with gambling debts owed to the mob, and…Read more
Video: Lessons From the Screenplay Talks about Annihilation
I am always astounded by the insights that Michael Tucker has in his Lessons from the Screenplay videos. It constantly challenges me to engage with movies and scripts in deeper and deeper ways. This is a particularly good one that came out recently. If you like it, I encourage you to go to YouTube and…Read more