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Stir Crazy 1980
As an impressionable lad, there are films you see that stay locked inside your mind forever. Hopefully it is not due to explicit imagery but, as in this film's case, to an implicit message: we all suffer, this makes us equal, but how we react to suffering separates us.
Faced with the danger of day-to-day living, Richard Pryor's character typifies the anxious type: full of fear and trembling. Like most of us today, he self-medicates: his weed stash is confused…
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Final Justice 1984
I had a philosophically reasoned review for Casablanca planned, but there's one too many of those on here. Final Justice has a much cooler poster anyway. And, being ironical, I prefer to polish turds and pass them off as hidden gems rather than wait in line to gawk at glittering diamonds like Casablanca.
As the badass poster implies, this film is about a huge faced man, his huge pistol and several tiny women. Set in Malta, the MacGuffin here is…
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Weekend at Bernie's 1989
Modernity is not a sickness unto death. It is far worse. Death entails finality. With every meaningful thing accomplished, all that is left is to not die. Protect the body. Any life project must be detached from reality, from danger, and made ironically, like a wonderfully expensive Lichtenstein or this unsolicited review.
Our role is to never exit the stage. This beach party, this eternal return to the Tiki bar must never end. Action now condensed solely to locomotion, a…
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The Room 2003
Lisa must choose: Mark or Johnny? A or B? Romantic love or relations with reality? An aesthetic life punctuated by moments of bliss or an ethical way of living and working with others?
As Kierkegaard writes, boredom, not money, is the root of all evil. Life with Johnny has grown tedious to Lisa; he is as predictable and reliable as the banking regulations he follows. Yet money is a root concern here as well, since Lisa's failed computer business limits…
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