Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Skinamarink is every bit the experimental horror film you've heard, for good and for ill. This can, depending on your disposition, go one of two ways: either a tedious exercise in shooting the crown molding of your parent's upstairs hallway where special effects amount to a goofy camera angle or a hard jump cut and a "Ka-zink!" noise... or a 100 minute waking nightmare that conveys primal fears of darkness and the unknown and abandonment and isolation through dream logic.…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
On one hand, Ant-Man and the Wasp is mediocre. On the other hand, that's kind of the Ant-Man gimmick? They serve as the lighter fare in the Marvel lineup that usually comes out after a major event (Ant-Man premiered after the bombast of Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Ant-Man and the Wasp was the goofy bring-mom-home heist comedy to lighten the mood after Infinity War dusted half the universe).
Here, though, things are a bit awkward: the littlest hero is…
Werewolf By Night at once shows the breadth and limits of the MCU's particular brand of filmmaking.
On one hand, it's a bold departure from standard cape and cowl superheroics: Werewolf by Night is a black and white ode to Hammer films and Universal Classic Monsters. Deaths in this short shower the scenery in blood. There are monster busts of beasts and demons felled by hunters, and every implication is that the MCU is - unbeknownst to The Avengers -…
Deadstream is like watching Blair Witch slowly turn into Evil Dead 2, and that alone is probably reason enough to love it.
It's also helped along by its solid understanding of the dynamics of internet culture: the emptiness at the heart of apology videos put out by irredeemable shitheel white guys on YouTube, and their need to turn every life experience into content that can grow their audience. This ability to focus on how the people on the platform are…