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Vanilla Sky 2001
Exists in a perfect dialectic with EYES WIDE SHUT -- the Kubrick text not only helps unpack this one, but this focuses some things about the Kubrick as well. There are even visual callbacks (Alicia Witt walking backwards seductively through LE is a straight up rip) as well as David's motto, which -- as he says twice at his birthday party in the first act -- is "living the dream." People keep telling him to wake up, but he has…
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Spiderhead 2022
I've heard plenty of good things about George Saunders and would love to get into his short stories some day, but unless Kosinski and his writing team completely changed everything about the source, this story is some incredibly lame shit.
What's more obnoxiously low-hanging fruit than a dystopian sci-fi morality tale about the evils of the pharmaceutical industry? Oooh, Big Pharma using prisoners as lab rats! No accountability! Emotion is too natural! Ugh.
As much as I loved MAVERICK, Kosinski's…
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Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022
Solidifies the Raiff brand, which is affable with a capital AF.
Doubles down on the sweetness and mama's-boy-ness of SHITHOUSE, with Andrew just a slightly more extroverted version of Alex. Also features another totally pointless epilogue (complete with a title card announcing time has passed) but one that doesn't torpedo things as badly as in the debut. Where it still succeeds is in the dimensions of the characters, fleshing out even supporting roles with bits of realism usually elided in…
