I don’t do these often anymore for lack of time, and perhaps this one has no need of my take. However, Nope could easily be Jordan Peele’s best film yet. It was well acted, excellently scored and just as cinematically thrilling as Get Out. And if not, then more so.… 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
So the world’s coming to an end and somehow people seem cool with that, hashtag #TheEndIsNear. I’m calling all comrades out from across the multiverse to discuss one of my favorite modern philosophers/academics Slavoj Zizek and what he has to say about the end of the world in light of… Continue reading
And yet another engagement with the Real, and let’s talk gender while we’re at it. I been talking a lot of Lacan in my critiques because Lacan is a profoundly useful analyst for understanding our world today. Recently saw the Jon S. Baird’s film Filth starring James McAvoy based on the novel by… Continue reading
So today I’m tackling another controversial remake which hasn’t gotten a fair shake, that is Spike Lee’s 2013 Oldboy written by Mark Protosevich and based on the 2003 classic Oldeuboi (올드보이) by South Korean director Park Chan-wook and writers Hwang Jo-yoon and Im Joon-hyeong, itself based on the Japanese manga. I enjoyed the original,… Continue reading
