I have been warmed and I have been burnt.
Aftersun leaves you pondering a thousand gentle questions with a teary eye. A fragmented narrative in which the unbearable weight of loss is encapsulated in such a touching yet harrowing story. As I write I have the frustration of not knowing what truly happened. The whats, hows and whys that led to the breakdown of Callum. As it often is with loss, I hope the beauty of Aftersun will shine more…
"That dreamy anticipation you have when you're fifteen or twenty or thirty even, that the most perfect person in the world might walk into your store or office or friend's party at any moment... That's all gone, I think, and that's enough to piss anybody off."
Though Rob is talking about girls here, it has lessons to be learned for life on the whole. Rob's attempts to figure out why other women seem to always reject him eventually comes to…
The cinematic equivalent of a high speed car crash. Destructive, horrifying, utterly devastating and yet, we still slow down because we can't take our eyes off it.
Brawl in Cell Block 99 is at times overly indulgent in its brutal violence, but you're excused in seeing it as a cathartic release. Vince Vaughn is the harbinger of this devastation in his quest to do right by his family, and at times it makes you squirm and cheer in equal measure,…
