What lingers about this one is the synergy between character and creator. Dev so clearly felt a need to prove some things; that he can lead an action film, that he has a voice and a flair behind the camera, that his interests and culture can be the subjects of movies. So when his character is always striving, always climbing, always fighting, it often feels like the perfect metatextual confection; I'm here first to watch Dev show off and prove…
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier 1955
Will never be unseated as the King of the frontier of my imagination, inspiring more than any story I think short of Star Wars my need to play out the worlds I was witnessing on screen. This time through I dazzled at the color, tone control, and scene variety present in this relatively low budget TV movie. To me its myth blazes across the screen with the historical weight and epic intensity of a LAWRENCE OF ARABIA or LEGAND OF…
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Wicked 2024
I found it tremendously hard to engage with anything in this movie. It's partly because I found the movie so hard to look at. There is strength in some of the acting, a few great bits of design, several stunning costumes, but the movie is very bad at showing us any of that. Interesting looking choreography that I can't see because of terrible editing and shot composition. Quirky costume details that don't pop because everything looks flat and washed together.…
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Harvest 2024
I was hoping this would be a mildly amusing bizarre little romp on a Sunday afternoon. While Harvest does feature fabulous sections I'd certainly classify as a romp, it follows an incredible evolution from filthy medieval farm comedy to colonial nightmare thriller and doesn't stop until it takes you past the end of human civilization.
My fears this wouldn't be weird enough vanished when, within 90 seconds, our main character was tongue fucking a tree. I laughed in relief and…
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