solid. feels like it's the sequel to something though.
home, paramount+ with showtime via amazon channels
solid. feels like it's the sequel to something though.
home, paramount+ with showtime via amazon channels
miss this kind of intense dialog-driven film which seems like a holdover from a certain type of 90s indie filmmaking. this was giving me strong THE LAST SUPPER vibes from the get-go. i get that the targets are low hanging fruit but i fully enjoyed watching that fruit being plucked! ralph fiennes is so excellent in this. possibly overrating by half a star or so but i'm sticking with it.
home, max
a comedy that keeps threatening to become a horror film but is mostly just extremely uncomfortable. in the q&a the writers and director constantly talked about how they wanted to pull the rug out from under the audience, subvert expectations, and mess with their viewers' minds by using the conventions of filmmaking against us. well, they were so successful at this that it makes for a somewhat difficult watch and i think i could have stood for being messed with…
my kids now eat on a placemat that came with a burger king kids' meal that i got some time in the early 1980s, which i think is when this film is supposed to be set. on it we see batman's origin story, including the brutal back-alley slaying of bruce wayne's parents, which in hindsight is a pretty strange thing to put on a kids' placemat. but the storytelling and artwork are so direct on that placemat that it's an…