When I clicked on Amazon’s latest original movie, I thought I was tuning into an odd romantic comedy that also somehow involved parallel dimensions. The cast certainly looked promising, as did the titillating first trailer. This grey-toned, deadpan dystopian drama is quite the unexpected surprise. Not necessarily in quality, but in the amount of thought…
[written by Cole Clark] With the Wes Anderson discourse machine now fully up and running, takes are pouring in over the style of the acclaimed director’s films. One of the most popular, “they’re all the same,” is the lazy version of “they all do the same thing,” a fair argument given the stylistic and visual…
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