It doesn’t really take a genius to identify two defining aspects of Noah Baumbach’s filmmaking career. He has been consistently drawing from autobiographical experiences, the most prominent, direct and discussed ad nauseam example of which would be his parents’ divorce in The Squid And The Whale. Though, it has to be noted that within the landscape of these inspirations he has repeatedly revisited the theme of a family (or a relationship) in crisis in Margot At The Wedding, While We’re…
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True Romance 1993
Besides the film’s obvious overall quality, there are at least three major reasons why anyone trying to understand and contextualize Quentin Tarantino’s work should take a good look at True Romance.
First of all, one has to consider how much of a milestone in Tarantino’s career this film was. Even though it was released in 1993, a year after his directorial debut Reservoir Dogs, it was his first ever script and at the same time the most autobiographical of all…
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Swamp Thing 1982
Put simply, Swamp Thing was just too far ahead of its time because audiences at the time were completely unequipped to take a movie like this with even a modicum of seriousness and any studio would not throw enough money at it to make the film look the part either.
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The Midnight Sky 2020
Somewhere in The Midnight Sky you could find a distillation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. You might even find a few flavours lifted from Interstellar, Gravity and maybe even Contact.
And as you go about trying to parse this multitude of thematic anchors nested within this story, you might just realize that your time would be better spent watching those very movies instead. Because The Midnight Sky is just a bit boring despite its solid performances and a premise that should work at least on paper.
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The Road 2009
Every single idiot hoping for a zombie apocalypse 'because it will be so cool' should be assigned to have a sit-down with "The road". Brutal, gritty, dull and depressingly sad, this film is probably the closest to what would actually happen in the event of shit hitting the proverbial fan. (Edit: though it has nothing to do with zombies, but a planet dying in a mysterious but straightforward fashion). It's never an easy watch and it does kick you in the stomach more than once, but it is simply a masterpiece.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017
Disclaimer: I think I should start by apologising in advance in case I lose decorum at some point and devolve into spouting profanity.
When I first watched James Gunn's Guardians Of The Galaxy, I liked it a lot and thought of it as Star Wars for the modern adolescents. It was nothing like other comic book adaptations and was quite self-contained and it wasn't bogging itself down with tying the film to other entries to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It…
