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Film Review – Endless Poetry
Late in the film, nearing the climax of its final act, the character Alejandro Jodorowsky (Adan Jodorowsky) tells his family of artist friends that he is moving from their home of Chile to Paris, France where he will “save surrealism.” The proclamation, prophetic and self-referential,…
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Film Review – Wish Upon
The horror genre has occasionally had those instances of what I would call “Scary Minority Curses.” This involves a protagonist, usually a white person, getting stuck with a curse revolving around a certain race or culture. Whether its ghosts on a forbidden Native American burial…
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Film Review – The Little Hours
The randy soap operas contained within Bocaccio’s The Decameron do not introduce new concepts. Women at the mercy of their desires and cravings is a struggle poor men have dealt with since the Garden. What’s really scary is when they conspire towards an inverted type of procreation, channeling that sexual…
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Film Review – War for the Planet of the Apes
After gaining awareness, leading an uprising and starting an independent life, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his society of evolved apes have one more transgression to contend with before as the latter part of the title indicates, inheriting a planet. The third film in Twentieth Century…
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Film Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming
Somehow Sony Pictures has conned us into being interested in the third reboot (not remake) of the Spider-Man superhero films. What began in 2002 with Tobey Maguire and is sandwiched with Andrew Garfield in 2012, we now have Tom Holland in 2017 taking over the…
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SIFF Film Review – The Big Sick
My favorite television show of all time is The X-Files. (Not season 10 though. There was one good episode, but the rest was CRAP.) My friend John recommended this podcast called The X-Files Files a couple of years ago hosted by this guy Kumail Nanjiani,…
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Film Review – Despicable Me 3
“You just can’t get enough of the yellow cuteness!” They say sequels are rarely as good as the first one, but when it comes to Despicable Me, it can only get better – or at least not worse. What do you expect from a second…
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Film Review – The Beguiled
The frame, darkened around the edges, gives way to natural light towards the center. Nature and life creeps into view. Light stays in the center while darkness bleeds out, taking away almost any resemblance of an edge to framing of the shot. This becomes an…
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