Staff Selects is back and we’re kicking off October with a selection of some horror films that we thought are underseen or else we just wanted to write about. Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto’s cyberpunk fever dream of a film begins with a man—the “Metal Fetishist”—slicing open his thigh with a knife and then…
Naturally, if I were to say the phrase “mindless entertainment” you’d probably think of the latest quickly produced (awful) action movie, a la Hobbs & Shaw. It’s usually something that requires little to no thought and is quickly branded a “popcorn flick.” This is supposed to alleviate any stress of attempting to truly critique said…
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Titles are hyperlinked to the contributor’s writing on the films as applicable. Henry Baime: 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire It’s hard to think of anything else as the film of 2019 when this one has defined so much of what I’ve done this year. I spent the last seven months chasing the film…
“Murder is murder, don’t matter who you are!“ Contrary to what you might be thinking, no, I did not pull the short straw for this week’s new releases. Seeing as how I don’t get The Lighthouse, this week , I voluntarily opted to be the one to go see and review the latest Naomie Harris,…
I’d love to say The Lighthouse is an ambitious failure – that Robert Eggers tried to tap into something heady, existential, or even primal, and just wound up coming up short. If only it were a thematic or narrative mess, or an admirable but flawed attempt at provocation that unfortunately missed the mark. Instead, Eggers’…
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