The original and probably still the best Be Gay, Do Crime.
The Wachowskis' cinematic imagination — like their love for leather — feels nearly fully developed in their first film. So many great little details, like the way the muffled sound of mobsters slowly draws Corky to her toilet to eavesdrop through the pipes, until a sudden drop of blood diffusing in the water draws us fully into the adjacent room.
The Wachoswksi's conviction, evident throughout their filmography, that the…
RRR has become the sudden darling of white film twitter, so I'm going to try to explain why that specific phenomenon makes me a little queasy.
Some white American film lovers seem to see RRR as a refreshing burst of "poptimism," but for blockbuster cinema instead of music. While there's a bit of patronizing incredulity to some of the excited tweets – "can you BELIEVE this shit Tollywood comes up with?!" – it's easy to understand this perspective. The craft…
So glad I waited (and waited) to see GODZILLA MINUS ONE on a big screen. THIS is what you can do with a mid-sized budget and an oft-used scifi metaphor, if you just take the time to focus on characters and performances. Didn't expect to get emotional at a monster movie, but that's cinema baby.
Still feels like a miracle to be this ethically objective and deeply sympathetic at the same time.
Deliciously mean-spirited. The food looks great, which is mandatory for something like this. Always nice when a movie is normal about sex work.
It's true there isn't much suspense or plot development, but it was stylish and funny enough to hold my attention as a ritualistic group self-immolation.
Ironically the guy next to me wouldn't stop talking, and loudly cursed me out when I politely asked if he could at least whisper. Sadly nothing burst through the ceiling.
There's a grain of an interesting idea here. Von Trier's Melancholia featured a seemingly unstable lead character who feels her world is ending, who suddenly becomes the only sane person in a world that is actually ending. This attempts to bring a similarly sidelong arthouse premise to a mainstream alien…
