Velvet Buzzsaw
Nightcrawler was frightening and creepy. In that film, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a rogue videographer who caters his services to network … Continue reading Velvet Buzzsaw
Category: Movie Reviews
Roma
Forget Alfonso Cuarón’s smooth camera work and his technical attention and his ability to wreak havoc in the background while … Continue reading Roma
Cage’s Mandy, not Manilow’s
The 2018 Panos Cosmatos film Mandy could very well have been released in 1978, directed by John Carpenter or Tobe … Continue reading Cage’s Mandy, not Manilow’s
Happy As Lazzaro
An odd yet beautiful film. However, its morality play center and rambling narrative diminishes the film’s quirkiness The first act … Continue reading Happy As Lazzaro
Extinction
The alien invasion plot is an industry standard that is now as boilerplate as Batman’s origin and Netflix’s Extinction upholds this formula … Continue reading Extinction
ANON
SciFi blast for a cliché crime caper Continue reading ANON
Dope
Icarus, much like its mythological namesake, starts out openly enough. Writer/director Bryan Fogel, obviously undergoing a mid-life crisis, seeks to … Continue reading Dope
Video-Game Action; Direct-Release Scripting
Let’s play nice and call Spectral an homage to a heap of sci-fi films and not a mash-up of clichés … Continue reading Video-Game Action; Direct-Release Scripting
Suspenseful. Alluring. Slow.
Stoker is a surprisingly wonderful indie film written by an American television actor, directed by a Korean known for violent … Continue reading Suspenseful. Alluring. Slow.
