“Everybody dies. Some of us peacefully and in our sleep, and some of us… horribly. And that’s life.”
–Lois Shelburn (Tatiana Maslany)
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, The Monkey’s writer and director Osgood Perkins detailed his writing process and work in adapting Stephen King’s novella. He said, “So step one is always figuring out how it’s about me. How is this thing true for me?” In this case, he notes that, “[The monkey]…
In 2012, a team of saturation divers went to the North Sea to fix an underwater gas pipeline. During the course of their work, a technical malfunction on the main ship caused it to drift and drag two submerged divers from the work site. David Yuasa (Simu Liu) managed to escape and climb back into the diving bell where colleague Duncan Allcock (Woody Harrelson) was waiting. However, the other diver, Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), became…
Director Dito Montiel’s Riff Raff has an insane cast. Bill Murray, Ed Harris, Jennifer Coolidge, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, and Lewis Pullman, are all in this quirky crime comedy. It is generally an unremarkable film, though it finds its groove as it goes along and mines its family drama for plenty of laughs amidst the chaos. The story is focused on two traveling hitmen (Murray and Davidson) trying to track down a man, Rocco (Pullman),…
Bong Joon-ho bites off a lot in Mickey 17. A lot of the original Mickey7 novel is changed and in its place Bong goes heavy on political themes, socio-political commentary, inter-species relationships, colonialism, death, life, and class, as well as pointed and absurd humor. It is a film about all of us and, in that, an urgent cry to not just accept the conditions around us but to take a stand for what is right.…
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Checking in at just under four hours, Once Upon a Time in America takes a long time to say absolutely nothing unique. A gangster film, the film does nothing for the gangster genre that could not be accomplished in a far shorter runtime because oh my God is this thing long. It just takes forever to end and even then, I still had no idea why it took so long. I love gangster films with The Godfather Parts I and…
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Postmodernism is a film theory that suggests that there is nothing original anymore. If it could be made, it has been made and we are doomed to simply remake a once original idea in perpetuity. Postmodernism also includes ideas regarding nostalgia and hyperreality, positing that cities such as Los Angeles may physically be real, but are in fact, dream worlds that are not actually there. In Damien Chazelle's latest work and, dare…
