It’s been days, and I’m still struggling to put into words how monumentally, fantastically, terrifically, bad this film is. It is one the most transparently egotistical and tone deaf TWO AND A HALF HOURS ever dumped on celluloid. A sad Frankenstein’s monster of other people’s art, half-baked philosophy, and ideas that aren’t nearly as revolutionary as Coppola thinks they are, framed through the lens of an aging man’s poorly concealed reckonings with his own mortality. It is impossible to take…

Irreversible is one of the hardest films I’ve ever watched, but if you can take the heat, it is incredible. Gaspar Noé is one of my favorite directors, and the only arthouse style filmmaker who (in my humble opinion) manages to maintain his footing while producing some of the most wild, metaphorical movies ever made. He is a blunt and gleeful sadist, with a style that feels like dreamstate, who feels deeply serious about creation, but not himself. The first…

After a disappointing ride with Longlegs, I decided to go back in time and see what I thought of an earlier Perkins film. The verdict, I just don’t think he and I get along. I understand the vibe he’s going for, the cinematography and lighting (like Longlegs) was lovely, and the performances were fine…but there’s a smugness…a self-possessed cleverness…that I just can’t get past. It’s not just that you can see the end of Blackcoat’s coming from a mile away,…

That A Serbian Film has achieved a kind of urban legend status in the horror community speaks to the power it has as a piece of exploitation cinema. Don’t get me wrong, it is well made, filmed beautifully and fascinating to watch, but I have never felt more desensitized by a film. Watching it, you get the distinct feeling that it has something very important, and vaguely political, to say. The issue is, there is so much shocking imagery being…