Posts Tagged ‘Amazon Studios’
Film Review – David Lynch: The Art Life
Over the last few decades David Lynch has firmly established himself as America’s premier surrealist filmmaker. His movies are the embodiment of visualized dreams. From his debut feature Eraserhead to his successful stint in television with Twin Peaks and on to his now self-proclaimed final…
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Film Review – The Lost City of Z
Percy Fawcett went looking for a lost city in the unmapped jungles of the Amazon – several times – and never returned. Fawcett’s story holds inherent interest – it’s estimated around a hundred subsequent adventurers died looking for him – and it could be told…
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Film Review – Paterson
The daily life of a bus driver in New Jersey and his wife is the focus of Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson. The film is a bit of a critics’ darling, receiving many accolades. If you watch the film’s trailer, it does not come off as anything…
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Film Review – Manchester by the Sea
A common sentiment regarding grief is it can express itself in any number of ways. One might commendably mold it into a creative outlet or venture while another might self-medicate, lash out, or lash out in a self-medicated haze. Lee Chandler, the focal point of…
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Film Review – The Handmaiden
My favorite Chan-wook Park film is Stoker partly because it is inspired by Shadow of a Doubt – my best-loved Alfred Hitchcock movie. He takes the two central characters and asks what would happen if they did in fact have similar natures. He’s not remaking…
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Film Review – The Dressmaker
The Dressmaker popped onto my radar when a US release date was announced along with a new trailer. I have no idea why there was a Kate Winslet film I was unaware of, especially one that had already released in other countries. Color me amused…
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Film Review – The Neon Demon
When a teenage girl comes to Hollywood to become a model she finds herself immersed in a world of fetishistic obsession and narcissistic pathos. A lot of what’s at heart in such a minor plot description is that it most certainly comes off as something…
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SXSW Film Review – Gleason
I am not a football fan, never have been, never will be. Choosing to see a documentary about an NFL player was a stretch for me. I wasn’t expecting much from the documentary, Gleason, which I chose to see late at night at the SXSW…
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