Watched: On laptop

Bound falls perfectly in the neo-noir crime erotica film genre, reminding me vaguely of films such as Basic Instinct, Crash, and a multitude of others. The film could easily be viewed as a steamy borderline soft core film of a lesbian love catered to a male audience. However, with the added mafia/money motive, the film is able to hold it’s own as a progressive LGBT and women empowerment piece, in the terms of both Corky and Violent…

Watched: On laptop

It’s hard not to get lost in Wes Anderson’s aesthetics, however, I really loved Rushmore, not only for it’s quirky Wes Anderson gimmicks, but due to the fact that Max Fischer had two father figures in his life, the not fully man child Herman Blume who seems to almost adopt him as the son he wished he had, and his not fully present father who despite not being the greatest parental role model wasn’t necessarily bad either,…

Viewed on: Laptop

Almodovar's All About My Mother felt like a strange mix between real drama and heartbreak and soap opera melodrama. I did, however, find the story to be an impressive look into heartbreak as a mother, something that differs wildly from the films we’ve watched last week.

This film seems to connect these women through their troubles as well as their interesting and slightly insane stories surrounding Lola, HIV, junk, and death. While some of their backgrounds seemed…