I've had a week or so to sit and think about this review and ponder the history of the artists and the music that this documentary features. The more I think about it, the more impressed I am with the team behind it: namely, Chad Stockfleth, the director; and Greg King, the editor (with whom we were lucky to have a Q and A with at the Llaemle Glendale). This was Stockfleth's directorial debut, and a debut 14 years in…
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Talk to Me 2022
“Drugs are bad, mmkay?”
Shout-out to the first kangaroo I’ve seen onscreen since Roeg’s “Walkabout.”
Genuinely fun and creepy. Glad I missed Barbenheimer for this one. Sophie Wild has incredible acting chops for a relative unknown. As many others have said, A24 has their faults, but they are complying with all of SAG-AFTRAs demands so I’ll allow them a bit of derivative horror for 2023 and show them some love.
After “Skinamarink” and “Helluva Boss,” I’m starting to feel like…
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Beau Is Afraid 2023
I feel a panoply of emotions as I begin to type this review. The first is probably a twinge of guilt, as I think back to my 2019 Halloween costume donned at Los Angeles' Magic Castle; flashing back to spending hours hunched over a glue gun as I painstakingly constructed my floral homage to the May Queen. I smiled toothfully in every photo. I really like folk horror, as evidenced by my devotion to Kier-la Janisse's homage to the genre…
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Barry Lyndon 1975
“Handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now…”
An absolute triumph. Kubrick’s “Citizen Kane,” but done with a lot more humor. In terms of the style and fashion of the piece, I keep thinking back to Dutch painters and how Peter Greenaway must have seen this as an early benchmark for a lot of his stylized work. Leon Vitali, who recently passed away, gives a stand-out performance as the mewling Lord Bullingdon that is both cringey and…
