Top Gun is at once the gayest film I have ever seen and not nearly gay enough. As everyone knows, it is a feature-length commercial about how cool it would be for hot-blooded young men to hang out with each other while flying sleek F-14s over a bronze-coloured sky. During its 110 minutes there are countless shots of white men in states of undress, showing off oily pecs and biceps, goofing around. The San Diego air is so hot, that…
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Darkman 1990
Turned out that when Sam Raimi worked for Sony Columbia, he was deliberately holding back. This, on the other hand, is what happens when you let him go ape-shit in the superhero genre. It is completely phantasmagoric, a whirlwind of shifting moods and tones, where a scene can be horrific, sad, chintzy and funny all at once (the bit with the pink elephant toy comes to mind.) It still feels like a dry run to his Spider-Man movies; the action…
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Lux Æterna 2019
THE PITCH MEETING FOR EVERY GASPAR NOÉ FILM EVER
EVERYONE: Gaspar Noé, you can't do that.
GASPAR NOÉ: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The Lion King 2019
Part 6 of The Year The Walt Disney Company Earned a Lot of Money and Lost Their Way
For just under double the price of an adult ticket to see The Lion King (2019) in cinemas, you could instead buy a brand new 4K UHD Blu-ray of The Lion King (1994). The benefits of this are substantial. You could own a copy of a film that has superior things such as colour, vibrant saturation, framing, cinematography and character animation that…
