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Revisit: The Element of Crime
Movie critics love to ascribe the title “enfant terrible” to any director whose bad behavior threatens to eclipse his work. Maybe in the current day and age, being an enfant terrible carries more of a...
View ArticleThe Moon
Lest one believe that only Hollywood can churn out a respectably mediocre piece of blockbuster entertainment, here is The Moon, a Korean import set in space and following an attempt to rescue a...
View ArticleThe Owners
The Owners is a simple movie at surface level. A group of apartment owners in the Czech Republic meet for their dreaded HOA meeting and struggle to agree on anything. The film is anchored around Mrs....
View ArticleFrom the Vaults of Streaming Hell: 13: The Musical
It’s no secret that, despite the vast importance of Jewish creatives to the development of early Hollywood, there is a distinct lack of quality escapist content centered around Jewish narratives in...
View ArticleRetribution
Ever since Liam Neeson transitioned into an action star, many of his films unfold with little effort on his part. Starting with Taken and onward through Blacklight, Neeson is content with modestly...
View ArticleGran Turismo
There is a Far Side cartoon called “Hopeful Parents” where Mom and Dad watch their kid play video games, and they daydream about Help Wanted ads for professional video game players. They ads read...
View ArticleOeuvre: Altman: 3 Women
In some ways, 3 Women is Robert Altman’s most impenetrable, least obvious film. In other ways, it’s a pure distillation of so many themes that run throughout his filmography: psychology and...
View ArticleFremont
While Fremont, California may mostly be known as a residential area for tech employees and the location of Tesla’s first car manufacturing factory, a small section of the city, known as “Little Kabul,”...
View ArticleScrapper
Everyone loves a good father-daughter bonding story, especially if the father and the daughter are quirky individuals with a penchant for mischief. If that’s your thing, then you will most likely enjoy...
View ArticleThe Dive
There’s a fine line between too much and not enough when it comes to crafting a propulsive thriller. Jumping right into the action can grab the viewer’s attention, but if there’s not enough context or...
View ArticleRevisit: The Sheltering Sky
Upon its release in 1990, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky received mixed to negative reviews, perceived by many critics as a pompous, ponderous piece of artsy foofaraw, paling in comparison to...
View ArticleThe Elephant 6 Recording Co.
There’s something in the water in Ruston, Louisiana. Musician Scott Spillane, a Ruston, LA native who now resembles the magnificently-bearded lovechild of Abraham Lincoln and Santa Clause, leans back,...
View ArticleCriminally Underrated: Cursed
A Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson collab is nothing if not the paradigm of late ‘90s, early 2000s teen horror, so when they went to work on 2005’s Cursed, their homecoming was something severely...
View ArticleBlue Box
Right before the film’s title card drops, the story of Blue Box takes an unanticipated turn. At first, it seems like we will be treated to a nice, if bland, series of recollections related to Joseph...
View ArticlePerpetrator
The only thing that distinguishes Perpetrator is the sense of totality with which it seeks to confound the audience. This is a movie that is Making a Point, and in doing so, it mixes so many metaphors...
View ArticleOeuvre: Altman: A Wedding
Few rituals are as ripe for satire as the wedding, a hallowed cultural institution whose ingrained core of showiness has steadily developed into the catalyst for rampant displays of excess. Add in the...
View ArticleThe Mountain
The Mountain, written and directed by Thomas Salvador, who also stars, is an uneven effort. It starts as an austere adventure tale replete with dramatic, how-did-they-get-that-shot cinematography, an...
View ArticleThe Good Mother
There is a staggering undercurrent of gritty neo-noir films permeating throughout our cinematic landscape. Adding onto the onslaught of forgettable streaming content, the aware will notice the...
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Rediscover: Hollywood Shuffle
For those who remember, the television sketch comedy series In Living Color ran from 1990 to 1994, launching the careers of Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Rosie Perez, Jamie Foxx and many others. Created by...
View ArticleNandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
Since the 1996 release of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo, the phrase “based on a true story” carries a certain weight, suggesting a series of preposterous events featuring equally absurd characters....
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