Denis Villeneuve takes this story and breaks it down in a way that I can understand.
I've never read the book, but I watched the extended cut of Lynch's movie last year and I found it incomprehensible. Villeneuve strips down that same heady material and makes it relatable. He finds a way to reflect our world by streamlining many of it's concepts. Unfortunately he spends so much time finding ways for us to understand the material he forgets to make…
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Black Bag 2025
The pinpoint precision of David Koepp's screenplay, particularly the dialogue, and the way Steven Soderbergh delivers that material blew me away. They had me guessing to the very end, weaponizing my own film theory knowledge against me. The jerks.
Black Bag is relatively small, made to feel very big. Indie filmmakers, take notes. You don't need multiple action sequences to make a taut thriller. Obviously having Fassbender and Blanchett as your leads helps, but everyone is excellent here; although they could've given that seventh character a little more to do. That's a minor blemish on an otherwise perfectly executioned spy thriller.I'm in the bag.
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A Summer Place 1959
The theme music has been playing in the background throughout my life, and now I've finally watched the movie from where it originated.
The first half of A Summer Place reels you in. It's the most melodramatic of melodramas. Director Delmer Daves is doing a sunsoaked variation on Douglas Sirk, and Daves has no problem enjoyably overplaying all those tropes, with a lot of caddy behavior accentuated for our amusement.
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Monkey Man 2024
Expectations can be a finicky thing. There's no denying Dev Patel made a quality picture, maybe a higher quality picture than I was expecting, but it's not the gonzo revenge vehicle that I wanted.
It starts becoming that movie at a certain point, after our hero gets fished out of some soupy water, delivering on the kitschy vibe that was promised to us, while adding some indie spirit into the mix. It's fun. That's what is missing from the first…Translated from by -
Thanksgiving 2023
This isn't the grimy grindhouse experience that was teased in the fake trailer all those years ago, and it's only around half the slasher flick promised in the red band trailer. This is more in line with late-90's Scream imitators.
What made Eli Roth's Grindhouse trailer so memorable was how sick and depraved, and downright filthy it all seemed to be. What Roth gives us here, with the exception of a few key moments of knarliness, is a slick studio-sanctioned…Translated from by
