In continuing the themes of my recent Joker and “Left populism” critique, Zero Books author Mikkel Krause Frantzen on depression and the ideological injunction to be happy: Continue reading
A brief trip through Uncut Gems with musical accompaniment (SPOILERS) Heart attack inducing anxiety, crushing you in sound waves, from a retro-futuristic apocalypse that happened yesterday. Black magic embodied in a “scared jewel”. One cannot serve both G-d and Mammon. From Africa to a colonoscopy, the tunnel into the diamond… Continue reading
(my 15 page grad school writing sample) In the year 410 C.E. the Visigoths breached the walls of Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, and preceded to loot, burn, and pillage their way through the city, leaving a wake of destruction in their path. It was the first of… Continue reading
SPOILERS AHEAD! I’ve been meaning to rewatch Joker for months now to write a little critique though I haven’t had the time. I did enjoy the film quite a bit though. It was a brilliant, tragic and necessarily disturbing critique of modern society from the perspective of the 80s and… Continue reading
As of the very moment I write this blog post I have yet to see Tarentino’s latest controversy, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As of now, I don’t plan on paying to see it either. I did however manage to see Django: Unchained hot off the presses, and loved… Continue reading
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
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
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
