Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review will contain spoilers for the entire movie, not that it's worth it to begin with…
“Toxic” is an often overused word to describe things in today’s world. But if I had to describe a film that personified toxicity, it'd be this garbage.
Basic premise is that wannabe actor Andrew (J.D. from Scrubs, who is also the director and writer of the movie) is living a miserable life in Los Angeles. After receiving a call from his father that…
Usually, a selling point for watching anything is that it has high reviews, as “Sound City” currently sits at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. As a musician, let me make a counter reason you should watch this: it might be the best AND worst documentary on rock music I have ever seen.
In his directorial debut, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl decides to cover the rise and fall of Sound City, a recording studio that produced countless legendary albums from bands…
This was a pleasant surprise. No, I don’t mean to say it was “pleasant” to watch, as the other reviewers accurately pointed out it does get increasingly more disgusting by the end. Rather, I was shocked by how the director used weirdness to say things of intellectual merit.
I liked it because 1) it was never weird for weirdness sake, it only got weird in order to make a commentary on something, 2) it subverted a lot of cliche Hollywood…