It’s just a great damn movie that returns to good old fashioned Regan values and has dudes getting their brains splattered with air. Perhaps the GOAT silent movie to feature talking and the sign poster for “show don’t tell” and the audience is smart actually.
Strong ironic beats briefly allude to the fact this is a Coen movie but otherwise what a triumph, goodness. Also somehow Woody Harrelson looks young in this movie. Also Tommy Lee is me fr (I…
Full of intention, Better Man was the ideal biopic interpretation. The movie’s thesis statement comes early, as Rob and Take That dance down Oxford(?) St singing “Rock DJ” in an energetic, zany dance number celebrating success and career validation. The choreography is complemented by a free-flowing, CGI-powered camera and the splurge of colours and comedic-bits is an impressive contemporary rendition of the Tutti Frutti Hat made for the nanosecond attention span generation.
Elsewhere, the movie is endearing thanks to the…
Every now and then you come across a discourse or idea that you just know would make a fantastic movie if done properly. Unfortunately, many movies are, in fact, not "done properly" and, more often, the idea that began so interesting is undermined to become a clickbaity hook, trojan-horsed by a conventional story and archetypal characters. Essentially, writing a script about a hot topic or emerging debate is just hard to do. Yet, maybe once a year, a movie tackles…
Truly the most unhinged film I have ever seen, and I mean that as a complement (I think).
Viewing this in a large, auditorium style cinema (the beautiful Astor) I was acutely aware of the dialogue between Oldboy and the semantics and syntax that Hollywood filmmaking perpetuates. Perhaps liberated due to its origins in a foreign film market, Oldboy disregards the more banal conventions of "the revenge movie" in pursuit of a film quirkier, less predictable and more sinister than…
