Some notes:
-- Amusing/horrorifying that the fate of millions rests upon the temper tantrums and petty arguments of a histrionic queen and the conniving Machiavellians that orbit her. Entombed in lavish opulence, the disconnect between the real world and the court is as absolute as the queen's power.
-- Olivia Colman's performance as the Queen was great. She perfectly captured the infantile incompetence of a woman unable to ever maintain a thought of her own. Yet, despite the horror of…
Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #30
Stalin, Eisenstein and Romero are seated in a drawing room on plush leather armchairs. They are enjoying cognac around the hearth of an open fire. They make small talk about the hoof and mouth disease epidemic in California, the Olympics in Paris and how absurd and profound Dada truly is.
Stalin narrows the conversation down to business, "Mr. Romero, I am very pleased to have you join our film program. It is my…
Game Night was surprisingly funny, actiony and suspensey.
The bullet extraction scene was comic gold and the faberge egg chase was genuinely exciting.
And Jesse Plemons was a creepy as fuck neighbour.
And so a good night was had by all.
Next game night, let's stick to strip poker. Though that is more of a horror movie when I lose.
This is a special film for my wife and I. Can't even hazard a guess as to how many times we have watched it over the past 15 years. It captures the magic of love from so many angles. And not just the good times but also the bad times, the whole messy shebang. The older I get the more my memory fades, organically rendering my mind spotless (or at least blotchy, perhaps). Yet my love for my wife grows…
Everything I love about cinema started right there in the 1890s. The Lumière Brothers started a long tradition of realism, capturing life on camera and providing a snapshot of different times, people and places. In extension of this, Alice Guy-Blache utilised this new mass media to reach out and engage broad audiences in social commentary and make…
Thanatos, Eros and the Art of Zen - Japanese Erotic Cinema Project - #1
I went to see this film at the cinema on my own. Nobody else could go but I wanted to anyway because I am precipitously dementing into a Sion Sono fan. And it has the word porno in the title, so there is that.
There was a lesbian couple sitting next to me. It doesnt matter that they were lesbians. But with the same sex marriage…
