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KEEP AN EYE OUT (Au Poste)

March 4, 2021 By Leave a Comment

KEEP AN EYE OUT (Au Poste)

The French title of Quentin Dupieux’s latest film, KEEP AN EYE OUT, relies on a clever bit of wordplay in its two words, AU POSTE. One of the meanings of poste is police station, where the action takes place. Another is post, as in taking up one’s post. There are more, the translation of which… Read More »

Tagged With: 1970s, murder, oyster, police drama, pun, satire

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE ON THE RUN

March 2, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE ON THE RUN

There has always been an archly hallucinogenic element to Spongebob Squarepants. I don’t mean the conceit of a sentient aggregate life form living in a pineapple under the sea. No, Spongebob has used it to tackle the existential from time to time while also being deliciously silly and being unapologetically full of heart. One need… Read More »

Tagged With: aggregate life form, animation, existential, greed, invertebrate, snail, snailnapping, zombie pirates

I BLAME SOCIETY

January 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

I BLAME SOCIETY

I’m not giving anything away to tell you the punch line in Gillian Wallace Horvat’s I BLAME SOCIETY. It’s a perfectly timed, and even more perfectly delivered explanation about the film her character made in the course of this vicious, and viciously funny satire: I’m sorry it didn’t meet your expectations, I didn’t make it… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, blonde, likeable female lead, patriarchy, pointed social commentary, satire, serial killer, strong female lead

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

The animation in THE CROODS: A NEW AGE is just as lovely as it was in the original. As we find our cave family going through some changes, though, the story, while lively, has a distinctly mid-century sit-com vibe, and not just because that Partridge Family anthem, “I Think I Love You”, is on repeat… Read More »

Tagged With: bananas, cave people, punch monkey, sequel, wolf spider

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

November 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

It’s possible that a working knowledge of Canadian culture and politics might annotate the sheer joy of watching Matthew Rankin’s THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, but a lack of same in no way diminishes it. This rapturously surreal romp through fascism, propaganda, and the perils of love delights in its arch embrace of retro-futuristic artifice and vintage… Read More »

Tagged With: cactus, Canada, Canada Geese, imperialism, politics, satire, surrealism

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

October 23, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

Borat Sagdiyev, once the second-best journalist in Kazakhstan, makes a return trip to America in BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, and he finds a country not so much changed in its dynamics from his last visit, as one that is more extreme. The jokes are harsher, and in many cases funnier. And they need to be. Since… Read More »

Tagged With: anti-Semitism, father-daughter, Kazakhstan, plastic surgery, Rudy Guiliani, sequel

DEERSKIN (Le Daim)

May 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

DEERSKIN (Le Daim)

When we first meet Georges (Jean Dujardin), he has already begun his journey of transformation driving through the remoter edges of alpine France. We can sense from the way he fidgets that all is not right with the hero of DEERSKIN. And when he stops at a roadside gas station to flush his jacket down… Read More »

Tagged With: editing, France, fringe, hearing voices, homemade machete, narcissism

THE HUNT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE HUNT

No one is spared in Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof’s THE HUNT, nor, as, will be revealed by the end, should they be. Our intrepid filmmakers have eschewed taking sides in the current political morass, instead opting for a more challenging take on the foibles of human nature itself. A bold move guaranteed to raise… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, metaphor, political correctness, satire

LAST CHRISTMAS

November 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LAST CHRISTMAS

LAST CHRISTMAS is a lugubrious exercise in muddled storytelling.  Billed as a romantic comedy, there is little humor to be found as the romance between a klutz who’s lost her way in life, and the handsome stranger who pops in and out of that life fails to ignite past the infamous friend zone. The klutz… Read More »

Tagged With: Brexit, Christmas, Covent Garden, George Michael, holiday, mystery man, sauerkraut

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

October 15, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Considering it only lasted two seasons in its initial run back in the 1960s, the television version of Charles Addam’s gruesomely enchanting New Yorker cartoon, The Addams Family, has become a powerful pop culture touchstone. It’s a favor that the current animated version amply repays, rife as it is with pop and political references. And… Read More »

Tagged With: marsh, mazurka, smokey eye, spooky, television

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