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THE INFERNAL MACHINE

September 23, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE INFERNAL MACHINE

THE INFERNAL MACHINE begins as a spare and tense film driven by Guy Pearce’s measured performance as tormented author Bruce Cogburn. Alas, not even Pearce’s fine work as Cogburn slowly unravels from years of guilt can make up for a script whose third act becomes cryptically obtuse, rather than dynamically charged, before it just goes… Read More »

Tagged With: American Southwest, guilt, isolation, mass shooting, paranoia, writer

NOTHING COMPARES

September 21, 2022 By 1 Comment

NOTHING COMPARES

It is high time for a re-appraisal of Sinéad O’Connor. Now best remembered with a tinge of distaste for tearing up a picture of the Pope on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992, the singer is the focus of Kathryn Ferguson’s documentary, NOTHING COMPARES. Centering on O’Connor’s precipitous rise to stardom at barely 21 to the… Read More »

Tagged With: Catholic Church, child abuse, controversy, Ireland, misogyny, music industry, patriarchy, Prince, Saturday Night Live

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN

June 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN

In THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN, we see the audacity of innocence. Based on the life, and wholly unlikely exploits, of Maurice Flitcroft, a name that all but demands to have a shaggy-dog story attached to it, it reveals how a man with no formal training in golf found himself competing at the British Open,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, British Open, class system, crane operator, disco dancing, golf, self-taught golfer

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

May 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Click here for the flashback interview with David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen for EASTERN PROMISES. With CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, David Cronenberg once again presents us with a dystopian future, or is it an alternate present, that is alien and yet, somehow, instantly familiar. It’s not just the machines that mimic the skeletal structures of… Read More »

Tagged With: autopsy, body horror, body modification, collapsing ecosystem, dystopian future

MEN

May 20, 2022 By 1 Comment

MEN

Click here to listen to the flashback interview with Alex Garland for EX MACHINA. One of the many striking images from Alex Garland’s MEN is of a serene autumnal landscape with a dark and looming entrance to a tunnel. It all but shimmers in the late afternoon sun, and then a raindrop falls into it,… Read More »

Tagged With: bloody nose, English countryside, Green Man, Marilyn Monroe mask, Sheela Na Gig, stalking, suicide, vicar

DEATH ON THE NILE

February 12, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DEATH ON THE NILE

And so with DEATH ON THE NILE (2022), we learn about the man behind the moustaches. That would be Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s cerebral Belgian detective devoted to his “little grey cells” and keeping order in the world. The former gets short shrift, mention-wise, in this adaptation, while the latter rears its compulsive head in… Read More »

Tagged With: 1930s, book to screen, Delta Blues, Egpt, ile murder, remake, spurned lover

MOONFALL

February 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MOONFALL

MOONFALL is everything that a Roland Emmerich film should be. There are dazzling special effects. There are several plot threads happening simultaneously that occasionally show a puckish confluence. There are parent-child issues. And there is a huuuuuuuuuge story. This time, it’s the curious case of the moon shifting its orbit in a way that defies… Read More »

Tagged With: alien technology, astronaut, end of the earth, ex-spouse, father-son, government contractor, moon, orbit

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN

January 21, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONEY PORN is neither for the intellectually timid nor the prudish. Radu Jude’s romp through cultural hypocrisy and the human penchant for being not just cruel, but also idiots, is designed to confront and confound with savage humor and brutal satire. Lest we have any illusions about the direct approach Jude… Read More »

Tagged With: amateur porn, Bucharest, dialectics, full frontal, nudity, obscenity, Romania, satire

THE CARD COUNTER

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE CARD COUNTER

With THE CARD COUNTER, writer/director Paul Schraeder returns to his favorite themes of sin and redemption. This is no tidy tale of a fall from grace precipated by a rash decision or a moment of weakness. We have at the center a flawed man with dark impulses that he cannot control once they have been… Read More »

Tagged With: Abu Ghraib, gambling, Las Vegas, metaphor, poker, vengeance

ETERNALS

November 22, 2021 By 2 Comments

ETERNALS

There is quite a bit going on with THE ETERNALS, a bold attempt to marry CGI action on a grand scale with metaphysical musings about free will, while also contemplating the fundamental principles of physics vis a vis the conservation of energy in the universe. Like I said, a lot. Had it worked, it would… Read More »

Tagged With: Aztec, extra-terrestrials, geocide, Marvel Universe, Mesopotamia, philosophically dense

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