This was filled with a lot more psychosexual imagery than I was expecting.
No doubt it’s a very impressive piece of indie filmmaking (look at that cast and crew!), and the effects here are superb. But god this is kind of impenetrable on first watch I think?
Obviously lots to say around our relationship with cities, our relationships with other humans, other relationships with technology - but what exactly it’s trying to say is beyond me for now. This is…
Second Hong Kong Category 3 film this week. Unfortunately not nearly as whacky as The Seventh Curse was, but still fairly enjoyable.
Basic premise is it’s Robocop set in Hong Kong but Robocop is a woman this time, and she does kung fu, and she has to hunt down an evil robot who has kidnapped the son of an oil tycoon.
The film is very horny, fairly bloody and has some decent action pieces. It feels very 80s despite being…
Love and War Screenings
Lost Highway is the first Lynch film I’ve properly watched (I have seen half an hour of Mulholland Drive so I don’t think that counts). It’ll probably be the last one I watch for a while.
That’s not to say this movie is bad, 3 stars is a positive rating after all. It is to say I didn’t really connect with it.
There is a lot of really interesting stuff here though, and I did really…
Love and War Screenings
Haven’t watched this since High School and I remember not really liking it then. But turns out that the setting you watch a film in and the headspace you see it in changes your opinion on a film, who knew?
Anyways, I do feel like some of my martial arts watching last night was wasted as this was a lot less overt with its references to Shaw Brothers films than I thought it would be (outside…
