The 2000s will never not be the most fascinating decade of cinema, while every art form was thrown a curveball by 9/11, then repeatedly bombarded with world-shaking event after the other, cinema found itself with a unique crisis. It’s not a medium old enough to be respected as timeless the way literature, theatre, or poetry are, so it has to compete with far more energetic and reactive mediums. Blockbusters found themselves competing with video games for the attention of adrenaline…
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Longlegs 2024
Any praise I may level at Longlegs feels rather backhanded since it comes with the awareness that this film is realistically selling a bag of old tricks. Satanism as a vague catch-all for any supernatural happenings in the film, the spectre that is childhood trauma as a theme in horror, and of course, kids stuff made to feel creepy. It’s trope city over here, and it’s not exactly a selection of good tropes.
On that note though, in the moment…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
Feels like the exact film Martin McDonagh has been striving to make for his entire career, it’s a hopeless exercise that borders on tragedy yet inexplicably manages to be absolutely hilarious without losing an ounce of potency. It doesn’t hide its many parallels to the Irish Civil War, a brief yet crucial moment in the country's modern history, it’s a feud between complacency and ambition, two concepts that are completely irreconcilable, therefore they’ll feud indefinitely, never being able to sever…
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The Bank Dick 1940
Writing a decent negative review for a comedy is a near Promethean feat, because unless it’s getting it’s laughs from a place of malice or by punching down, there’s not much you can really say other than “I don’t find it funny”. And that’s the case with The Bank Dick, it’s not devoid of laughs, far from it - it ends with a brilliant car chase and there’s the odd gag which gets a chuckle out of me, but it’s…
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