If erotic thrillers are reactionary conduits for our fears about dating and fucking, it’s kinda funny how many of them position shouty and emotionally unregulated men as their heroes. Hey all you secretary-shaking Michael Douglasses, you shower-perving Bruce Willises, you home invading Kevin Bacons: did you ever wonder if you weren’t the part of this that’s scary?
My favourite thing about Sea of Love is the perfect comedy of Pacino’s escalating apologies. I’m sorry I called at 3am; I think…
Bluray.com reviews are weird. By all accounts, Black Hawk Down is one of the greatest 4K UHD releases of all time. And like, they’re not wrong - it’s a great package, sumptuous and detailed, marred only by the movie itself, a 153 minute weak spot in an otherwise flawless release. Over on AVS forum, the news is that the grain structure is perfectly preserved and that skin tones are especially improved. For more worldly insights on skin tones in Black…
“J Robert Oppenheimer. Sphinx-like guru of the atom. Nobody knows what you believe.” I paused to write that down because it really just crawled up my ass and died - that was DIALOGUE! This was up for best adapted screenplay, get out of here with that bullshit.
Fuck, I hate this movie. Second time around, I hated it slightly less than when I first saw it in a cinema and wanted to pull my skin off and fling it at…
Brian and I took a little time apart - after 24 films in a row together I needed some space from him, his last three movies really hurt me. I tried seeing other thrillers but everything just reminded me of him; every black glove, every woman in sunglasses, every undercooked reveal, every shower. He was so bad for me but when he was good, nobody ever did it better.
All of which is to say, Black Dahlia doesn’t suck at…
