A big one from last year that I'd heard lots about, then forgotten about, then it popped up on Prime!
Anarchic fun. Properly funny, absolutely rocket-fuelled in its pacing, with *fantastic* performances across the board from rank amateurs. Really, really impressive work.
On top of all the incredible entertainment of sex, drugs and Irish language hip-hop is a considered and intelligent commentary on language and how it shapes people and cultures, as well as the rights that ought (per the…
Got the 2k Criterion restoration of this for my birthday, and wowee what a gift. It looks simply astonishing, and takes a near-perfect film to a basically-perfect place. Well worth the don't-check price point.
What a film. If I ever produced something a tenth of the quality of Stalker, I'd be running around listing myself in the top 10 filmmakers of all time. A film of unplummable, infinite depths, which commands your attention and engagement and has you staring down…
Witches. Cumbria. Multiple suicides. Piss. What's not to love?!
Most of it, really.
Brendan Fraser plays the world's healthiest Overwatch 2 player in Aranofsky's newest depression-fest, and boy does he.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room: Brenda Fraser is Back(?) A small part of me worried that the hype was simply a product of internet adoration and collective guilt from an industry that so coldly discarded Fraser, but I'm happy to report that he is absolutely electric. You'd be forgiven after sitting through all the Mummy sequels for thinking that Fraser…
