Category: Film
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Things to Come
Imagine your platonic ideal of a bad French independent film. That’s Things to Come. 102 minutes of sad old people talking about philosophy and even then it’s worse than you expect. The film starts three years in the past with an almost wordless flashback, it ends one year in the future. In the interim she…
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Tickled
If the baseline for a compelling documentary is the exploration of an outlandish true story, Tickled has you covered. An investigation by New Zealand journalist David Farrier into the American fetish-sport of competitive endurance tickling. An investigation that slowly reveals a hidden world so bizarre that the frivolous matter shows itself well worthy of a…
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The Purge: Election Year
I’ve held off on writing this one for a while because I have the bad opinion. The Purge: Election Year is pretty fucking great. It’s not perfect. Of course it isn’t; it’s a Blumhouse production. But, it’s it best of the three Purge joints (not saying a lot, I know) and if you’re in the…
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Kubo and the Two Strings
In art form is function. What art is can be as important as how art is. Laika are the only game in town for feature length stop-motion animation. That’s why it so hard to get a read on them. There’s no necessity for perfection when you’re the only one selling. The fact has allowed them…
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Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is a sweeping story of the struggles presented by both commitment and infidelity. Presented as the story of a mother’s life as narrated in the form of a letter sent to her estranged daughter, we travel through the Spain of the eighties, nineties and millennium, observing all the ways that humanity finds…
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A Review of Woody Allen’s Latest Film; Cafe Society
Seriously..? Come on. It’s a Woody Allen film. Three Stars.
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Sausage Party
Okay, let’s start with the basics. Barring any further revelations it’s pretty clear that the animators on this film were mistreated. The entire state of the American third party animation industry is pretty much fucked. But that doesn’t excuse the shady shit that has happened in the films production. When I recommend this it is…
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David Brent: Life on the Road
David Brent: Life on the Road is perhaps the most appropriate film that could be made about the character. It is not the best. But it, in its own way, encapsulates all the messiness and contradictions of the character and his creator. It tries to champion the common people yet propagates some real harmful stereotypes…
A Grand Quiet 