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Ginger Snaps 2000
I’ve been playing The Binding of Isaac recently (fuck you Gurdy!), and maybe it’s just because it’s taking over all my thoughts, but Ginger Snaps reminded me a lot of the game. In Isaac, our titular character flees into his basement when his mom receives a message from God to sacrifice her son. Once down there, he spends his time running from and fighting infinitely hideous conglomerations of blood, excrement, and flies. The monsters are limited only insofar as his…
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989
Industrial terrorism, the incessant reverberation of machines, modern paranoia, the unstoppable creep of technology, the drilling and droning of a world made entirely of metal
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Run Lola Run 1998
It’s rare to see a film that feels so fresh and unlike anything else, but this is definitely one of the most stylish and well edited movies I’ve seen. Remember in Community, when Jeff rolls a dice in Remedial Chaos Theory to see who goes down to meet the pizza man, leading to distinct outcomes each time? This movie is a bit like that: an anthology of three vignettes that all feature Lola running to meet her dad (set to…
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Blue Velvet 1986
Probably my favorite thing about Lynch (and by extension here Frederick Elmes, who I just found out did the cinematography on Synecdoche, New York??) is the way the interior sets are constructed and brought to life. The lighting and shadows and unsettling corners in Dorothy’s apartment look absolutely insane here. Not many filmmakers’ bodies of work can invoke dread and despair just by walking a camera down a hallway, but there’s such a liminal suburban squalor over everything in Blue…
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead 2023
Surely THIS will be the piece of media that causes Japan to collectively reexamine its destructive relationship with work
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Oppenheimer 2023
Oooh boy ... first things first, this is a fascinating (and obviously ethically and contextually multilayered) story with frequently excellent acting and an absolute masterpiece of a score by Ludwig Göransson. Predictably it looks and sounds amazing (although it was mixed a lot better than most Nolan films, the sound design does get grating at times, especially near the end). And (perhaps) unpredictably, Robert Downey Jr. gives one of the best performances I've ever seen: give him the Oscar, right…
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