A black-and-white Wes Anderson film is like watching Tim Burton direct a WWII melodrama. It just shouldn't happen. Despite the drainage of pastel colours that makes Anderson's films so ostentatiously alluring, his debut short - which also introduces us to the Wilson brothers - is a solid student film. The glimpses of Anderson's signature flair are here and there, but the entire composition of these thieving pot-growing friends hanging around and planning a robbery feels very vibey. The absence of…
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Cujo 1983
Imagine if Stephen King had wrote Cujo to be a Rottweiler or an American Bully XL? Yes, St. Bernards are adorably fluffy - hence turning one rabid is the whole point in changing something nice into something evil - but a rabid Rottweiler would be a whole different beast. A canine terminator! King's adaptations are usually hit-and-miss with me as they typically do not stick the landing and highlight King's worst tendencies as a writer. Surprisingly, Cujo is the reverse…
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Ad Astra 2019
Ad Astra galactically depicts sorrow, proving that no one can hear you cry in space. For the past few years, dramas set in the expansive dangers of space have been my bread and butter. Devouring them during my annual breakfast as I purposefully starve myself for the taste of space traversal. Every year, the likes 'Arrival', 'Blade Runner 2049', 'First Man', 'Interstellar' and my all-time favourite film 'Gravity', have secured scores ranging from outstanding to perfect. Whilst Ad Astra may…
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Midsommar 2019
Midsommar brightly dances through fields of tulips to create an unsettling depiction of emasculation. "That was a waste of time" muttered the viewers behind me. "What on earth is going on?" laughed the friends in front of me. "That was hilarious!" chuckled the imprudent heterosexual lads as I was walking out. Rather infuriatingly, as with most cases of contemporary filmmaking, I yearned to instantly throw a rebuttal at their faces. "What did you expect?".
Sure, A24 were excessively marketing this…
