LA-based sound designer, filmmaker, and all around cinema enthusiast, originally from Chicagoland. Host of Kinotes Podcast on film music.
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The Blackcoat's Daughter 2015
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“It’s strange. People think you look for Him in some book or in a church or a statue, maybe even a candle flame. But that’s not how it works for me. I look for Him in the unlikely things that happen. Little coincidences.”
At the time of writing this I haven’t seen LONGLEGS, but a reaction to that movie I’ve heard a lot is that the film almost seems “cursed” or that people felt like they’d been cursed by watching…
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Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
“MAD MAX: BLACK & CHROME EDITION Subdues FURY ROAD’s Excess”
I tend to perk up when contemporary films do black and white. Color is an incredibly powerful cinematic tool, but some clever filmmakers have used its absence to express. The effect can transport us back in time (GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK), situate a world in an alternate reality (A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT), be a historical comment on the medium itself (THE ARTIST), or create an atmosphere that…
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In a Violent Nature 2024
HALLOWEEN (1978) may have come first, but the popular imagination of the slasher film probably owes more to FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980). It brought to the genre the iconography of the forest and lake, where an abundance of rusty implements is at the disposal of a backwoods hulk. Every summer, you see, he's got to deal with a revolving door of intruders: thinly-sketched, and often annoying, teenage campers. As the first few FRIDAY THE 13TH movies were released, others pretty…
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