This isn't the only title to have been italicized as a nostalgic/respectable genre known as The Kind of Adult Dramas They Don't Make Anymore. But it is the one I watched and it is the second of said releases which includes Kiefer Sutherland in its ensemble albeit in a much smaller role.
That these tautologies (in a courtroom, of the courtroom, peripheral to the courtroom) stand in for a "larger, moral story" is an Eastwood dialectic between the individual, the…
Everyone went to bed, I was home early from my closing shift. I want to watch more of Metrograph's curated program of these long-time collaborators-cum-filmmakers. Who else is doing stuff like this, collecting friends, lovingly appropriating a genre and winkingly including a "coral expert" wearing a comely, thrown open labcoat and bodycon, black mesh midriff/bustier/miniskirt named "Veronica Beef"?
Hot tubs, graphically decrypting an email attachment, coral sentiency: the whole is more tongue-in-cheek than actual heavy breathing with two metaphysical interns…
Late '90s NYC nostalgia as the firmament of cinephiles/physical media/VHS. Staying on in the city after graduating from graduate school, slotting into food service/editorial internships/pitching to Arts & Cuture departments was the anticipated path to making things happen and not at all doleful.
Parambulating the city, first working for a self-described beauty expert in a condominium on the Upper West Side and, later, the West Broadway location for a now defunct espresso and bagel casual concept patronized by neighborhood celebrities (one…
The nadir of generational-trauma-cum-horror entries? I don't know, but I felt terrible having to watch Sosie Bacon's "Rose" attempt to fend off an invisible, demonic entity attached to an all too contemporary yet overwrought lore.
When her nephew lifts up that tissue paper and the monstrousness of that gift circle devolves into an injury and resulting bandages of an individual in mental and emotional peril, I was in even worse shape.
The resolution, as much as can be granted with…
