This made me miss Phillip Seymour Hoffman something awful. He imbues such an absurd, melancholic story with incredible soul. He makes Caden human, and so he makes us care, even as the seams of the story grow twisted, then dissolve right before our eyes. The movie is an incredible meditation on mental health, not just in its depiction of depression and how it can make a person detach from their loved ones and life without their realizing, but also anxiety…
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Scanners 1981
My first Cronenberg. Cannot get over how hot Stephen Lack is in this while also being such an empty actor, devoid of any real feeling, though I think that blankness does actually work in the film’s favor considering that Cameron is someone with no memory and no past, a pure vessel to be shaped into Dr. Ruth’s weapon. We have no sense as to why he takes on Dr. Ruth’s mission, or even why he disagrees with Revok, other than…
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Megalopolis 2024
Wildly offbeat, oftentimes nonsensical, more often very silly with lots of insane line readings… and then FFC would cut to some of the most breathtaking visuals I’ve seen in a while. And for as weird as the film is, you can feel his earnestness, and I’ll take a director sincerely trying to make art even if it doesn’t always entirely work over corporate Hollywood schlock any day of the week and twice on Sunday. A thinly veiled fable about the…
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