When the Toxic Avenger kills people I like with things that are gushy and explodey: Toxie!
When the Toxic Avenger fails to be a clear cut leftist: Toxie…
Any movie with a restaurant called the Mexican Place where a samurai sword is a Chekhov’s gun deserves props. Did not realize points for hitting people with your car came from this. R.I.P. Bozo.
To turn the screwball comedy’s idea of class onto the enlightened conservative is such a perfect theoretical concept that of course it comes from movie obsessed academics, but the ability to apply it with empathy and good humor takes it above and beyond. Rohmer understands the power of musical dialogue and simple iconography allow his intellectual philosophy to be absorbed with ease, and Almendros’s perfectly composed frames ooze with memorable eroticism. Masterpiece of romance.
There’s a painting you see about twenty minutes into this film that reminds me a lot of David Lynch’s first “film” - a projected installation of a bunch of guys throwing up. I don’t mean Neon is grotesque, though at times it may be a lot more interesting if it was, but it stumbles upon a roughness that sometimes feels thin. Lynch had to project his image of fear and disgust and anxiety on a sculpture. Neon doesn’t have that…
Oh, Saltburn. It's incredible how you try to look so pretty and interesting while saying absolutely nothing.
The visuals are straight out of a "how to make cinema" YouTube video with production design lazy enough to view an extravagant house in the background as "interesting."
Keoghan disappoints as someone unable to take glee in any of the dark humor the film attempts. Elordi is underutilized as an uncomplicated "angel" whose only implication of darkness has to come from the one…
