Traveling two thousand miles to try to know somebody who’s shared your bed. Wandering the streets in rejection while rejecting everyone except your latest dependency, human or chemical. Finding that in trying to understand somebody, the only person you’re certain you’re able to locate and see through the eyes of, is yourself. It’s so much more prickly than the energetically-supercharged Challengers, but it’s so recognizably the same hand. Luca Guadagnino has spent his whole career exploring intimacy, how the personally…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
-
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep 1966
What is Godzilla without the guiding hand of Ishirō Honda?
The only one of the prior six Godzilla films not helmed by Honda before Ebirah was 1955’s Godzilla Raids Again, a hasty and blatantly-obvious cash grab on the part of production company Toho, directed by schlock-hack Motoyoshi Oda. Trepidation at the director’s credit reading “Jun Fukuda”and not “Ishirō Honda” would be warranted. But with support from frequent Honda collaborator Eiji Tsubaraya, Toho’s resident special effects czar and future Ultraman creator, Fukuda steps into the…
Translated from by
Recent reviews
More-
King Kong 2005
With all of the talk around blank checks in Hollywood lately, between Mickey 17 finally coming out and Nolan’s Odyssey beginning production, this, one of the most well-deserved and completely indulgent blank check films in recent memory, has been on my mind. After adapting the long-thought-unadaptable Lord of the Rings trilogy to the tune of just shy of $3 billion at the box office and seventeen Oscar wins, Peter Jackson took on the dream project.
King Kong is probably exactly where my mind would go…
Translated from by -
Popular reviews
More-
Wild at Heart 1990
Every movie should contain, by volume, exactly this percentage of fucking, exactly this percentage of smoking, and exactly this percentage of extremely overt pulls from The Wizard of Oz. So overwhelmingly beautiful it defies words.
Translated from by -
Anora 2024
The first time I saw Anora when it came out here in November, I was extremely impressed by Sean Baker’s control and form, by Madison and Borisov’s performances, and very much caught up in a lot of the peripheral conversation around it at the time. I was taken off guard by the comedy and kind of overwhelmed by the tonal dance Baker was attempting. I also think I was misreading where the Ani character was headed in the early going…
Translated from by
