Going into Anora having basically no knowledge of the filmmaker / movie prior besides realizing afterwards that Sean Baker also directed Tangerine back in the day and I just so happen to have to written about over 10 years ago (it was shot completely on …
This will be the second film I have seen this year without having seen any of the originals prior, and I gotta say: Terrifier 3 had me nostalgic for other reasons, not only because it was filmed in Panavision anamorphic lenses that makes the whole …
“This clear time of seeing embers—A gold-bright sun’s lost in the first dusk.What frenzied senses, desp’rate muskAre consort of rememb’ring”—from Frank Herbert’s Dune: Book Two People say they like reading the book before seeing the movie version of something, but I actually tend to prefer …
If you saw Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (based on the book published in 1992 written by Alasdair Gray), then you would have been so pleasantly surprised at just how fabulous and truly special it was in its entirety—from the black and white to …
“We’re all cold-blooded” Going into Saltburn, one must drop all expectations and just enjoy Saltburn—because if you are looking for a “normal” and not totally twisted dark comedy that takes place on the English countryside in the early 2000s with the coolest soundtrack ever, then …
“France. Army. Josephine.” I am not a history buff by any means nor do I claim to be some sort of expert on the French Revolution, but for one reason or another I felt compelled to go see Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and write this review. Maybe …
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset” —David Grann, Killers …
I grew up in the 90s / early 2000s so to say I’m experienced in high school comedies would be an understatement. And to have a gay / queer indie HS movie directed by a woman hit the big screen (with a soundtrack that I am …
“We live and die in the shadows for the ones we love most for the ones we never meet” If there is any actor in the world I trust more with 2 hours and 45 minutes of my life, it is definitely Tom Cruise as …
“Trust your curiosity” I love Wes Anderson movies because not only are they so well thought-out in a way that is always a sequential layered masterpiece that comes together beautifully in the end, but because there’s always a subtle (and often weird) love story and …