A Few More A-Listers to Round Out the Year Vesper – 8 Coming out of the fields of Euro Indieland, 2022’s Vesper is a smart sci-fi adventure. It feels original, thanks to a heroic attention to detail. Pacing is on point, as co-directors Buozyte and Samper resist the ADD temptations of the young adult genre-space,Continue reading “Flash Reviews 2022 Part 3”
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Flash Reviews 2022 Part 2
The Munsters – 7.5 Jeff Daniel Phillips owns the show in Rob Zombie’s unexpectedly awesome rebirth of The Munsters. Herman’s got rhythm, a good heart and no boundaries, and it’s good stuff. My lady was a fan as a kid, whereas I never could get past Eddie, but we both had fun with this one.Continue reading “Flash Reviews 2022 Part 2”
Flash Reviews ’22
What have you been watching? Here’s some quick bits and recommends from our Apple TV & Chill sessions of late. Enjoy! Benedetta – 8 Sexy, strong like dark coffee, Verhoeven’s religious drama is a well executed, rare piece of adult entertainment from 2021. There are layers here – a discussion of how pleasure and painContinue reading “Flash Reviews ’22”
Reviews Roundup 2021 pt 2
With the flood of content pouring out of the modern streaming machine, it’s the least I can do to help winnow the bullshit for you. If you follow this blog, odds are you’re as annoyed as I am by the common goreporn, mindlessness, sexless sex and bad animation that gets Rotten Tomatoes so excited. CrowdsourcingContinue reading “Reviews Roundup 2021 pt 2”
Reviews Roundup 2021 pt 1
Some quick thoughts and one-offs on the riffraff and b-sides. Enjoy! *Light Spoiler/Offensive Content Warning* Shadow in the Cloud – 7.5 If you’re into synth bass, steampunk, CGM or b-horror shamelessly ripping off The Twilight Zone, Roseanne Liang’s Shadow In the Cloud is an undeniable good time. It doesn’t so much lack for realism asContinue reading “Reviews Roundup 2021 pt 1”
Mary Magdalene – Better Late than Never, Movie Review
Rating: 8.5 The world will only change as we change. Mary Magdalene As it does, and we do, so inevitably will the stories we tell about it. Like DiCaprio as Romeo, or Hopkins as Lear, Mara as Mary is familiar immediately, even to those who don’t know her story, and even as it comes, conjuredContinue reading “Mary Magdalene – Better Late than Never, Movie Review”
Valley of the Gods – What did I just watch? Flash Review
Rating: 8 *Spoilers* Apologies for the radio silence, all. I’ve been insanely busy prepping new projects, so haven’t had much time for reviews lately. But last night we watched Valley of the Gods, the new movie from Lech Majewski, Josh Hartnett, Berenice Marlohe and John Malkovich. It’s an impressionist wonder, full of striking landscapes, absurdContinue reading “Valley of the Gods – What did I just watch? Flash Review”
Swallow – The Truth, If You Dare
Rating: 7.5 *Spoilers* In the search for beauty, truth, belonging and destiny, it’s hard to imagine a more desperate answer than American consumerism, except perhaps for every other system we’ve ever tried. The endless mouth of modern life is far from simply a capitalist problem, anyway, that much is clear. Overconsumption devours nearly every culture,Continue reading “Swallow – The Truth, If You Dare”
Cthulu & Campy Horror WTF Update 4/20
*Spoilers* Underwater – 6.5 Kristen Stewart is undeniably hot, having long since left the shadow of Twilight behind her and become a capable actress in her own right, but even with her star power, the killer effects wizardry of Legacy Effects, and a cameo by Chthulu himself, this thing tanks as anything other than aContinue reading “Cthulu & Campy Horror WTF Update 4/20”
The Lighthouse – A Psychoanalytical Perspective
Rating: 8 *Spoilers – Mature Content* The light… seed… Veritas… Thomas Wake Thomas, meaning “twin” in Aramaic, is the name of both leads in the Eggers brothers’ script for The Lighthouse. Funny, they kind of look alike, if at different ends of their lives, but that’s probably a coincidence. The younger of the two TomsContinue reading “The Lighthouse – A Psychoanalytical Perspective”