This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“You want to dance the mask, you must service the composer. You gotta sublimate yourself, your ego, and, yes, your identity. You must, in fact, stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself.”
Lydia Tár is a composer, one who is lauded as a modern genius. A women who has clawed her way up the ranks—ranks normally reserved for misogynistic or racist white men of the past, her idols. She’s so good she has a full EGOT…
The cinematic equivalent of jingling the keys to a Honda Odyssey in your face. Everything kind of went downhill after walking in halfway through the Alien: Romulus trailer, which absolutely fucking ripped. Worth the price of admission just to see that in IMAX.
“If the American empire is calling us terrorists, we’re doing something right.”
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a tightly structured, well paced thriller that almost perfectly blends a gritty procedural heist film with a modern social commentary on the inevitable ecological disaster we are all steadily marching towards. The group of patriots, or terrorists depending on how much money you have tied up in energy stocks, is a collection of societal outsiders—indigenous peoples, those who have been forced…
This movie is at its best when Cage and Hoult are on screen. I thought the idea of telling this story through the lens of a toxic relationship was a great, fresh take on the classic monster movie. Dracula, the narcissist, “feeding” on the innocent people around him and using them as fuel felt like a great way to make the story relatable, Hoult’s montage of self improvement was great, the movie is perfectly camp and over the top at…
