Odiously self-righteous claptrap bullshit - a shallow shitbirds deep dive into a mirage of water. Obviously we’ve all been waiting for Tucker Max to write I Hope They Serve Communion Wine In Therapy - I guess this will have to bide us over until then.
Keanu fully innocent. So I wonder who the guilty one must be….
I’ll put it like this: I went to the theater 3 separate times to watch Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; within the first six months of its release, I had seen it 10 times. This was not the masochistic behavior of an MCU diehard - this was the need to experience every shred of old school style Raimi was willing and able to give us. I don’t even particularly like that movie.
I’m not sure if there is…
For someone who has been obsessed with HK cinema for decades, it is unforgivable to have slept on Sammo as much as I have.
Someone somewhere should make a list of films with the most intense, whip-lash inducing tonal shifts ever committed to celluloid. At least half of them would be from Hong Kong, and Pedicab Driver would make a bid for the top spot.
I suspect this is part of why these movies are so frequently affecting. It’s an…
If there is a movie that came out during the Hong Kong New Wave that I don’t at the very least enjoy, I haven’t seen it. The best of these movies are charged with the energy of a raw and fully exposed nervous system, a third rail of high melodrama and brutal violence. The art made within the pressure-cooker environment created by the impending Handover is unlike anything else I’ve ever come across; so many of these films vibrate with…
