Reviews, Top N lists, and other sundry cinematic stuff.
descend from Andes descend to utter madness wrestle with monkeys Great film. Stunning. Epic. Masterfully shot. Surreal. Insert more superlatives here. However, when your primary film-selection criterion for the evening is “which one is shortest?” – well, this one may leave your jaw unpleasantly unhinged. Bewildering. Will watch again. When I’m more serious about it.
some say “slow moving” but instead ’tis action packed. still, please be patient. Seriously. You need no additional evidence that Kubrick was a bat-shit insane genius than this film. Anyone that says that describes it as “slow moving” is expecting entirely too many explosions for something set in the 18th century. Or they’re not paying […]
Allegory for spousal secrets, marriage woes –but more explosions.
when it says “written, produced, and directed by” please just walk away
“What’s wrong?” “Oh, nothing. I just need something stronger.” Subdue the perverts. It’s a little tough to believe that I’d gone this long without seeing George Lucas’ THX 1138. And in many ways, it’s almost harder to believe that it was made by the same guy behind Attack of the Clones. As I’ve said of […]
As Season Five of The X-Files comes to a close, Mulder and Scully are getting split up, the X-Files is getting shut down, and (in that respect) the Syndicate’s conspiracy has “won”. Fight the Future 1 feels like a long episode with a little more weight in the climactic moments. On many levels, this works. […]
Season Five of the X-Files begins as an immediate successor to Season Four before veering off into what feel like wildly different directions. The characters are the same, the paranormal elements are (usually) there, but something about it isn’t quite parallel. Mulder’s new-found skepticism is a big part of it. It’s as though, after coming […]
An anagrammatic haiku review of Michael Bay’s film, Transformers: truly a hard-on for these U.S. armed forces and for broken glass →becomes→ try to suck boner for nose-gas. half of us ran. arms heralded red.
Borrow the L.A. they set up for Blade Runner… Never mind. This sucks.
Take Philip K. Dick mix well with ice cream and nuts top with saccharine.