Decided that now was the time, after putting it off for so damn long, to finally get to David Lynch's Blue Velvet.
As with all of Lynch's films bar maybe The Straight Story, I'm often compelled to yell "What the hell?" every 5 minutes or so as a coping mechanism. Truly, his worlds, his films, his dialogues are so utterly mesmerically central that you just get lost in the massive surrealism tangents that you don't have time to question all…
[20th anniversary rewatch in theatre]
At 20 years-old, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, as far as cult classics go, doesn’t feel like it has aged one single bit. I mean the cast, crew, director, and producers have all aged, but its essence, themes, and rumination of memories and how they play a singular factor in our relationships doesn’t seem like it’s flown past its expiry date. If anything, those same messages perhaps hit a lot harder today than when…
Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell's feature-length debut after first premiering a $21,000 budget short film with the same title is impressively staged and produced, but its storytelling leaves little to be desired.
This is pretty much a film that's build on its immersive world and expansive visual presence. Earl and Caldwell had used their original short film that premiered in 2014 as a showpiece, and eventually they managed to pitch the same feature-length project before Bron Studios picked it up…
Totally strange, incredibly weird, and 100% zapped out from director Bong Joon Ho's brain onto my cinema screen. And every minute was a confounding fever dream that I was completely captivated by.
To be honest, this was not the first feature I expected from Bong Joon Ho after his history-making Oscar triumph with Parasite. Granted it has all of Bong's quirky sensibilities and his extremely detestable rage for capitalism like all of his other films, but Mickey 17 is undoubtedly…
The Electric State is an event film. An event in the sense that it exists, it's on Netflix, and it has a release date. Apart from that, this is woefully abysmal coming from the directing and writing team that delivered Marvel Studios's biggest pictures of the last decade, and even I am underselling the quality on display here.
It's fun and easy to lampoon a film on a platform that already does a lot of lampooning (even if rightly deserved),…
Screwball satirical comedy that chalks up to a brisk and fine time, where Miloš Forman certainly knows how to direct the hell out of a film.
Cut at just 73 minutes long, this might just be Forman's shortest film he's done. It's practically soaked up to the knee with gag after gag after routinely laugh-out-loud whimsy, but what's in it is also a director that knows how to make it all work. The cast, also made up of actual firemen…
