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…
I do not remember the first time I had heard about The Penguin nor did I really know at first that this new HBO show was a continuation of the 2022 Batman movie The Batman until after starting it, but I was just coming off…
“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…
“Open your eyes / and look within / Are you satisfied / with the life you’re living?” – Bob Marley, “Exodus” Something happens when reggae music starts playing. I mean, prove me wrong: there is just this certain vibration through the innermost part of our…
“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…
When it comes to falling in love as a teenager, it is not every day you’re sitting there at the diner journaling in your diary and a random man approaches you to go party at a famous rock and roll musician’s house—I mean really, let’s…
“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…