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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

March 20, 2023 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

What is most striking about JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, and JW:C4 is a very striking film, is how emotionally engaging it is as is goes about the business of filling the screen to bursting with gloriously choreographed, ultra-violent action sequences. What in other films of this ilk would provide a paper-thin motivation for its protagonists… Read More »

Tagged With: assasin, Berlin, cheating at cards, excommunicado, fancifully knotted ties, New York, Osaka, Paris, Place de l'Étoile, sequel

SMILE

September 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SMILE

Among the primates, expect for humans, widening the mouth and showing the teeth is a signal of aggression. In humans, it’s called a smile, and I’m sure that anthropologists have made much hay about that behavioral disconnect between us and our cousins. Parker Finn, in his feature film debut as writer and director, also makes… Read More »

Tagged With: curse, hallucinations, psychiatry, PTSD, suicide, Trauma

DON’T WORRY DARLING

September 25, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DON’T WORRY DARLING

DON’T WORRY DARLING is not the most coherent of feminist manifestos, but it is an ambitious one, exploring as it does several variants of toxic masculinity, some unexpected, but no less pernicious for the surprise factor. Using a devoted couple, Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry Styles) as the focal point of gender dynamics, the… Read More »

Tagged With: conformity, cult of personality, mid-century, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, unreality

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

BEAST

August 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BEAST

BEAST is a surprisingly heartwarming story about a rogue lion rampaging his way across the African savannah after poachers slaughter his pride.

Tagged With: Africa, dead mother, guilt, poachers, rogue lion, tracking shots

HE’S WATCHING

July 27, 2022 By 1 Comment

HE’S WATCHING

For the first 15 minutes or so of HE’S WATCHING, you might be forgiven if you think that this is just another semi-inspired entry into the found-footage sub-genre of horror. I’m not sure that isn’t exactly what filmmaker Jacob Estes intended. It certainly makes what follows all the more effective for it having lulled us… Read More »

Tagged With: demons, pandemic, siblings, strawberries

NOPE

July 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

NOPE

NOPE is what OJ Haywood says when he sees something that does not sit well with him, be it what appear to be tiny visitors from another world invading his stable, or the offer to sell the family spread after a freak accident kills his father (David Keith). As played by Daniel Kaluuya, he is… Read More »

Tagged With: disaffected techie, enigmatic, homicidal monkey, sky dancers, ufo

THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE

May 27, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE

THE BOB’S BURGER MOVIE gives us a few origin stories for the long-running animated sit-com artfully woven into a brand-new musical adventure. Far from playing out as an extended episode of the series, it expands to fill its feature-length running time with a murder mystery, a financial crisis, and a nifty low-speed chase involving an… Read More »

Tagged With: bank loan, based on a tv series, capitalism, infantilized, murder mystery, siblings, sinkhole, stuffed animals

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

EMERGENCY

May 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

EMERGENCY

EMERGENCY starts with Sean (RJ Cyler) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) attending a class called Blasphemy and Taboos, taught by a perky British woman who, after reminding her students that their syllabus contained a trigger warning about this class, confronts them with the n-word. Not just projecting it onto the classroom screen in huge letters,… Read More »

Tagged With: bacterial cultures, broken tail light, classism, college, moral center, racism, sexism, spring break, trigger word, white privilege

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