Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Eggers seamlessly folds in the best parts of German Expressionism with stunning lighting, pitch perfect performances, and his signature having-done-research-at-an-actual-library.
Ok, so the OG Nosferatu was a skinny hipster boy scuttling around the village in his little boots holding an armful of coffin dirt. He only listens to My Chemical Romance.
Herzog’s 1980s Nosferatu was an old, tired queen looking to retire to the big city. And the big city’s giving him the vapors!
Eggers’ Nosferatu is finally the sexy…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is really hard for me to say because Lilo and Stitch might be one of my favorite movies of all time, but this was some bullsh**. Derivative anthemic fluff with a bullsh** ending. Pascal coasting by on his best Jason Bateman impression. A schizophrenic story with a wack ending. Don’t even get me started on the aesthetics. Hooray, mom cleans up and goes back to work for Amazon!
Et tu, Bill Nighy?
Save your time and just watch Wall-E
Resonated deeply with my experience as a diasporic Hindu. While many english-speaking South Asian films seem to reach for the low-hanging fruit of Bollywood, Dev goes for something more ancient here, and calls out Hindu nationalism for its troubling nature. This is the first collab with the John Wick guys that I’ve actually enjoyed because the stunts serve a complete story. Had me wondering if Dev Patel is actually a genius? Keep up the good work, and the long hair