If it wasn’t clear from my surrealist rant Night At the Cinema, I really enjoyed Star Wars the Last Jedi. In fact, if not number one, the film is top two for me in terms of the Star Wars series. Hence I wish to share with y’all a lovely counter-critique… Continue reading
(musing over Dario Argento’s Suspiria remastered) Suspiria is a masterpiece conceptually, a beautiful, disorienting, sublime, surreal and sometimes terrifying fairytale of horror. It is a true “video play” of a film. Argento uses disorienting visuals/sound to allow for revelation, this sublime experience beyond language. This is the value of ‘altered… Continue reading
If you can’t appreciate color while appreciating black and white, how can you appreciate art? The colors soften the palate, and moisten the gray matter, like wine and bread. Euphoria utilizes a sprinkle of “unrealism” to color an otherwise bleak and gritty teensploitation. It softens the taste as it goes… Continue reading
Roxana Hadadi’s “‘Mid90s’ Uses a Super-Uncomfortable Sex Scene to Make Its Young Protagonist Cool, Because Of Course It Does” misses the point SO hard. Barely anything these kids did was cool, and it’s fairly obvious the film is aware of that. I had to make a quick comment on this… Continue reading
Dorian puts his pen to the paper, a small journal, archaic for the twenty-second century but he likes the way it feels. “Passing through. You were just passing through but I live here” he writes. Still waiting for the girl he loved. He looks at his watch via cyberbrain. “Where… Continue reading
I liked the first part but this one I couldn’t take seriously. Without getting into the films numerous plot holes (all over the internet), its often fun cheesiness (neither here nor there), and inability to be truly “serious”, even when you think it is, just a few quick notes: Avengers:… Continue reading
The story of the generations of human kind. In the beginning… …there was only the pure radiant “light” of G-d, the zero state. Within the contraction of the infinite, nothing subtracts from its very nothing-ness (0-1), opening a void, for the sake of something, a vessel, only to be shattered by… Continue reading
a personal favorite of mine: Spirit Phone by Lemon Demon [Chorus] Over and over The pheromones, the overwhelming harmony Consuming the colony The Circle rules your life In trying times it seems “nature” works in mysterious ways. As a result we mystify it. The overwhelming harmony is life at its… Continue reading
(SPOILER ALERT!) Me: Just saw Us Me: I liked it. How did you interpret? Aarón NYC: Black. Aarón NYC: He just wanted to make a horror thriller with blacks where the white Familia dies. Aarón NYC: ✊🏾 Aarón NYC: It’s Jordan tryna emulate Ta-Nehisi Coates alla Eight Years in Power. What you think?… Continue reading
A Soviet animation depicting the threat of fascism post-WW2 with the rise of a new generation of Neo-Nazi parties operating in “the West“, metaphoric ‘wolves’ Continue reading
