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Anora 2024
Sean Baker scores another hit in his portraiture of the American class system through the eyes of sex workers series. A highly kinetic and propulsive piece of work that veers into screwball rom-com territory but cleverly subverts and sidesteps cliche at every turn- never sacrificing realism or honest human moments. Part Pretty Woman, part The Hangover, part Uncut Gems. A whirlwind of escalating hilarity with an underlying dread that drives its emotional thesis home in the final moments.
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Nosferatu 2024
A new benchmark in gothic horror and a top 5 vampire movie of all time. In typical Eggers fashion the emphasis is on vibe and texture, spinning a pitch black yarn of well trodded territory made fresh with a twisted, manic edge. Forms emerge through inky shadow, blown out torchlight fills the frame illuminating lurking dread. Sickly Victorian figures lament in a desaturated palette, a gnawing unease crescendos into a primal scream. There are more than a few moments of…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
There is Lawrence of Arabia.
There is The Empire Strikes Back.
There is The Two Towers.
And now there is Dune Part 2.
Nerds and Dune heads gather round, we welcome a new Messiah. Rest assured it is glorious and damn near perfect. Huge bombastic shit happens in expansive wide shots with a little silhouetted figure in the foreground while Zimmer drops bass bombs and it's like heroin in my veins. This is Villeneuve’s Dark Knight. Brutalist goth fantasy and…Translated from by -
The Northman 2022
From the prophetic ramblings of an eyeless witch-Bjork comes a timeless fable written in fire, blood and human entrails. A classic revenge narrative gives way to a glorious display of roided-out berserker carnage and hallucinatory pagan rituals vividly realized in black metal album cover tableaux. Based on the myth that inspired Hamlet, but closer to a spiritual homage to Conan The Barbarian, Eggers goes big- trading arthouse for cinematic spectacle with a flair for the abstract. One for the ages. Bless the Allfather.
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