"I want to talk to you without speaking."
Only Luca Guadagnino can effortlessly translate William S. Burroughs' bizarre literary sensibilities to the big screen and meld those with his tender, melancholic and visually textured filmmaking, but not without flourishes of a phantasmagorical atmosphere that could be last seen and felt in his reimagining of Suspiria. As much of an adaptation of Burroughs' source material as it is a film about him and his legacy. Seemingly peaceful on the surface of…
100 Horror Movies in 92 Days 2024: #67
PODCAST MACABRE CHALLENGE (2024)
1. From 2024
Progress: 27/52.
There's a reason he's known as Art the Clown. This nasty motherfucker knows how to MURDER people. In targeting his next victims, he treats them as his artworks, corpses to be torn apart or decapitated, bodies to be mutilated. He'll hack away with an axe, a chainsaw or a hammer, making the most of his various weapons in his garbage bag. Sometimes, he'll…
"Make no mistake. This is no fairytale, and there are no happy endings."
Even as a defender of Paul W.S. Anderson's digitally hyperstylised, vulgar auteurist tendencies, In the Lost Lands is aggressively mediocre by his standards. Anderson's got the right schlocky ideas in mind, blending genre aesthetics of spaghetti westerns, epic fantasies and post-apocalyptic road movies to deliver a dorky, metal vision of George R.R. Martin's source material, and his penchant for bleak atmospherics and striking imagery do come through…
"Even though there might be 600,000 words in the human language, the world still struggles to find the right ones when someone you love is gone."
Mad About the Boy is classic Bridget Jones fare, in that it's charmingly funny and relatably awkward, but it has such a sincere, mature approach to grief and the ways in which we cope and try to move on, that this is bursting with plenty of heart. Bridget Jones has always been an endearing…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Sometimes, the simplest, most personal stories are the best ones.
We all want to connect. We yearn for a companion who will accept us entirely for who we are, someone we can get close to, and someone that we can share moments, memories and experiences with. There'll be several friends along the way, but most of them won't come close to that one true friend who has been by your side. We can't imagine our lives without them.
But sometimes,…
52 Years in 52 Weeks (2022 Edition)
Year: 2022
Progress: 6/52
"It's not just a call. It's a warning."
About as dark and good as Nolan's Batman trilogy, yet what makes Matt Reeves' vision of Batman necessary and compelling is at least his focus on the character's detective skills and an examination of his traumas, beliefs and responsibilities. The central mystery unfolds with Fincherian intrigue, taking influences from Se7en, Zodiac and even Saw (and thankfully feeling less Marvel-ish as a…
