The familiar theme in OBSESSION is given a bracing re-boot by filmmaker Curry Barker. While the narrative addresses the oft considered dangers of getting exactly what you wish for, the subtext, that bursts through with the force of a spurting aorta, deals firmly with the insidious nature of male toxicity, female objectification, and what happens… Read More »
SPLITSVILLE
Click here for the flashback interview with Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin for THE CLIMB. SPLITSVILLE is a visceral film. It evokes not just laughter but the sort of gasps that are more rightly the province of horror films, and this is where its true genius lives. While exploring the ridiculous lengths to which… Read More »
DAMSEL
This fiercely iconoclastic western uses many tropes from that cinematic genre, from the classics of John Ford to the more recent idioms of Sergio Leone, but the references are merely window dressing. Part comedy, part tragedy, part feminist manifesto, and all engrossing, it subverts expectations at every turn while delivering a film that refuses to be pigeonholed.
GODS OF EGYPT
The ancient Greeks preached moderation in all things, and while GODS OF EGYPT is set in that ancient land, not the Peloponnese, I was put in mind of that advice. This is a film of craven excess in all things except what would have helped most: a good script. For two hours or so, we… Read More »
DEADPOOL
Exhibiting a hearty dose of irony and a mordant sense of humor, DEADPOOL exuberantly embraces the conventions of the super-hero genre while fearlessly pricking the more pretentious conventions of same. There is in this tale of a man who has super powers, but refuses to be a hero, evinces a bold and bracing willingness to… Read More »