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Black Bag 2025
Stephen Soderbergh directs from a script by David Koepp (for the second time in only a couple months - see PRESENCE) and spins out a taut spy thriller that unfolds in small rooms and uncomfortable conversations instead of the typical international jet-setting set pieces with car chases that inevitably end up going down back-alley staircases. Michael Fassbender suspects his wife Cate Blanchett might be the bad guy, and goes to great lengths to determine whether that’s the case. The obvious…
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Mickey 17 2025
Bong Joon Ho’s follow-up to the perfect PARASITE is this IMperfect but worthwhile sci-fi epic that takes on arguably too many satirical targets, but which ultimately satisfies thanks to a strong core story about mortality and identity. Mickey is an “expendable” laborer on a freezing planet in the process of human colonization, and as such can be reprinted with memories intact each time he dies. His resulting invincibility is portrayed as an exhausting existence, and when an additional version of…
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Stroszek 1977
Werner Herzog’s masterpiece about the American Dream turned to shit just gets better and better as time goes by. Stroszek’s odyssey as he stumbles through Germany, relocates to Wisconsin and has the horrors of the damned visited upon him is nihilistic to the point of hilarity. (It’s no surprise that this was reportedly the film Ian Curtis of Joy Division was watching just before he hung himself.) By the time our hero goes nuts at the end, boarding a ski lift with a rifle and ascending to his final fate, the overall feel of the film has shifted from merely tragic to downright apocalyptic.
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The Fountainhead 1949
This is, by far, the most unrelentingly bananas movie I’ve ever seen. Every second is imbued with incredibly breakneck mania because the viewer is in constant befuddlement trying to figure out whether the filmmakers actually intended us to take it as a serious reflection and/or critique of anything resembling actual reality. Not a single wild-eyed character acts like a real human being. The dialogue is appallingly bad, as is the acting, the plotting, the pacing… as I said, just absolutely…
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