Perhaps my favorite Miramax production, my favorite film released the year that I was born, one of my favorite ‘90s cult classics and hands down one of my favorite films of all-time. This and its New Hollywood predecessor, Mean Streets, are actually some of the films that made me fall in love with cinema and inspired me to become a filmmaker. This is the British equivalent of the type of stylish indie filmmaking involving the criminal underworld and set to…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me."
If there's one aspect of this vastly underrated cult classic that really struck me the first time that I saw it, among all of the other variously remarkable qualities of the film, and that I'm instantly reminded of seeing it again, it's how David Lynch managed to demonstrate so authentically, in his own words, "the loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion…
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Nixon 1995
A staggering portrayal. Despite looking very little like the real man, Hopkins manages to completely transform himself into Tricky Dick through subtle body language and contortions. That teethy grin and of course that unmistakable grumbling voice. As a film, it’s stylistically very similar to Stone’s JFK and thus almost functions as a spiritual sequel of sorts. What distinguishes this political biopic, however, is that here Stone manages to completely eschew the kind of dishonesty and agenda he’s frequently accused of…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
Despite being far less derivative and having more of its own bizarre, almost experimental creative spark, this “antisequel” is a commentary on the incel fan culture that built up around the first film. The storyline is exceptionally more tragic. Also, the masses and comic book fans have been spoiled on connected cinematic universe bullshit for the last ten years. That’s why this is being met with such a negative reception.
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