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INFINITY POOL

January 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INFINITY POOL

    With INFINITY POOL Brandon Cronenberg continues his father’s great tradition of unsettling images and quasi-familiar realities. He diverges in that, for all the normalization of the disquieting, in that he fails to evince the same undertone impish glee at the macabre so evident in even the elder Mr. Cronenberg’s darkest works. Still, he… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, execution, exploitation, foreign country, orgy, strobe, tourism

MEMORY

May 4, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MEMORY

Based on the delightfully quirky 2003 Belgian film, The Memory of a Killer, MEMORY has the makings of a solid neo-noir. Alas, rather than a tight script to match its excellent visual acuity, MEMORY rambles too much before leading us down the familiar path of corruption in high places and the loss of innocence across… Read More »

Tagged With: Child sex trafficker, corruption, Early onset Alzheimer's, El Paso, hitman, Mexico, pigeons in a bakery, remake, The Memory of A Killer

COPSHOP

September 19, 2021 By Leave a Comment

COPSHOP

Click here for the flashback interview with Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo for THE GREY. There has rarely been such an effusive, even whimsical, satire on violence as that which is found in Joe Carnahan’s COPSHOP. This blackest of black comedies adroitly combines tension and goofiness with an insouciance that is nothing short of breathtaking.… Read More »

Tagged With: Arizona, besieges police station, bullet-ridden car, corruption, desert, hitman, tracheotomy

REMINISCENCE

August 21, 2021 By Leave a Comment

REMINISCENCE

There is a persistent torpor to REMINISCENCE, a film that tries to be many things and fails for the most part. Rife with visuals that evoke a disquieting dreamlike state, the story, an ersatz neo-noir set mostly between sunset and sunrise, drones along with the cinematic equivalent of a mosquito’s interminable buzz on a humid… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, dystopian future, femme fatel, global warming, memory, Miami, rising oceans

I AM LISA

October 30, 2020 By 2 Comments

I AM LISA

One can approach I AM LISA as a very cool horror film in which the power structure is challenged by the supernatural. One can also approach it as a scathingly brilliant dialectic on feminism in several of its waves. Either way one comes away from this deliciously atmospheric, intellectually nimble excursion into lycanthropy, wildly entertained… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, mean girls, revenge, sheriff, used books, werewolf, wolf

SPUTNIK

August 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

SPUTNIK

As is traditional in one of the more intriguing sub-genres of speculative fiction, the most dangerous monsters of SPUTNIK turn out to be the ones that didn’t come from outer space. That is the only standard trope to be found in this lean and lyric film from Russia, though, as it takes a sober look… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, cosmonaut, extra terrestrial, human nature, Khazakhstan, Russia, Soviet Union

STONEWALL

September 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

STONEWALL

STONEWALL is a sudsy, underwritten, overwrought effort that is less than the intended tribute to the unsung heroes of the eponymous riots that accelerated the gay liberation movement into the social mainstream. Instead, it is a melodrama of truly epic proportions told with every cliché of gay life as lived in less enlightened times, and with… Read More »

Tagged With: American history, based on a true story, civil rights, corruption, gay activists, Gay Liberation, LGBT, mob ties, New York City, organized crimes, Stonewall Riots, street hustlers

THE GREEN INFERNO

September 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE GREEN INFERNO

With an Eli Roth film, one should know what one is getting into, as in, an unspeakably unsettling film that will feature violence, gore, and a side of human nature that does not show the species off to its best advantage.

Tagged With: Amazon, Amazonian tribe, cannibalism, corruption, Eli Roth, exploitation, homage, horror, South American

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

April 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

Nick Broomfield makes documentaries that seek the truth and report it without fear or favor to anyone. There is no better example of what he does, and why it makes for such compelling cinema, than TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, which takes on the reasons why a 25-year killing spree by the eponymous serial killer… Read More »

Tagged With: Anitra Washington, backgammon, Barney Broomfield, Christine Pelisek, Christopher Franklin, corruption, DNA testing, documentary, Grim Sleeper murders, incarceration rates, LA Weekly, LAPD, Lonnie Franklin, movie, NHI, Nick Broomfield, No Human Involved, orange pinto, Pam Brooks, peckerwood, racism, serial killer, South Central Los Angeles, TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, Tiffany Haddish, true crime

THE DEPARTED

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE DEPARTED

With THE DEPARTED, Martin Scorsese has taken a good film, the Hong Kong minor classic INFERNAL AFFAIRS, and remade it into a movie that is as bloated as it is bland. Gone is the dramatic tension of a slick action flick, gone is the suspenseful psychological subtext that pondered the nature of identity, subsumed into… Read More »

Tagged With: Boston, corruption, crime, mob, mole, police

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