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High and Low 1963
High and Low is a tremendous detective movie. In fact, watching the investigation of a kidnapping unfold from the luxury hilltop — it’s not a mansion, but it is beautiful — home of Mr. Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune); as well as the seaside slums of the lowlands beneath the view of Mr. Condo’s home.
Mifune is excellent as the businessman Gondo, caught up in an overextension of debt as he tries to avoid a hostile ouster from his shoe company. Added…
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Arsenic and Old Lace 1944
Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace is an insane movie. It’s full of Looney Toons style gags and physical comedy from Cary Grant that’s nearly unrivaled, in my humble opinion. But it’s also got a completely bonkers plot that involves the murder of something like fourteen men by a variety of slapstick-comedian style actually insane serial murderers.
Those two elements don’t sound like they should work (and to be fair, they kinda don’t). But Cary Grant’s Mortimer Brewster is a…
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Glass Onion 2022
This movie is a Pieceshite.
(That’s all I would write if I were a one-liner reviewer.)Glass Onion takes the central character from Rian Johnson’s previous fake-detective movie Knives Out and drops him into the center of an even more far-fetched, outlandish, eccentric group of characters and drama to solve a mystery that, in the words of Benoit Blanc, is so much dumber than it seems.” And similarly to the previous film, the idea of the movie is that you don’t…
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Beau Is Afraid 2023
Beau is Afraid seems like the kind of movie that gets made when an auteur finds too much success too fast and is given plenty of rope to hang themselves with. Ari Aster’s anxiety-fueled horror/comedy begins as a window into the modern world through Beau (Joaquin Phoenix’s) eyes. But by the half hour mark, the metaphors for the terrors of everyday life and the familial machinations that start them have grown so out of control in a literal sense that…
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