Top 4 at the moment are the most fun movies I watched last month.
Part 2 of this week’s filmic vendetta against Australia.
This one is much more of a chamber piece than Apex and contains another of Nicholas Cage’s great love letters to the unhinged.
It’s a more enjoyable (if that’s the right word) watch than Vivarium but equally existential and weird.
While it references Chinatown this has a lot more in common with the shaggy dog detectives of Long Goodbye.
It’s interested in the mystery at its heart but only to the same level Darren is… ie. his entire focus until it isn’t.
Chris Pine has the most insane onscreen presence that even in something as uneven as this, he still shines.
Really fun, if not particularly memorable or groundbreaking.
Unfortunately most people only discovered Christopher Nolan after Batman Begins but when I was in high school this movie was the balls (that’s good for those of you who haven’t seen Anchorman).
It has a stellar cast, Guy Pearce delivers another of his amazing post-Neighbours performances. The story really isn’t as complex as it seems but the structure of the film raises interesting questions about the nature of story telling and memory.
This movie influenced a slate of knock-off’s but none have captured the raw, jaw-dropping power of this movie. Long live Christopher Nolan.
So when I got back to Australia last year all of my DVD’s were in boxes at my parents house. I started going through them and it was like Christmas. I realised there were all these movies I’d bought while teaching and never had a chance to see… one of them was this. So I sat down with my girlfriend and we watched it. I am continually astounded at how stupid I am. Of course this was going to be…
