The first time I watched this in like 2015, I remember thinking it was fucking awful.
Watching it again for the IMAX rerelease, 10 years later and with far more film literacy, I still think it's fucking awful, but I at least see what it's trying to do even if I don't think it does it well.
The good of this movie is that it looks really good, the scenes with James Franco are weirdly magnetic and left my theater…
When we were about to move very far away from one another after living together through COVID, one of my closest friends gifted me a copy of Antoine De Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince." On the inside cover of the book, she wrote "To you, For all the times we talked about going back to be kids. This book does it for me, transports me back to a time of no worries, no responsibility, and lots of hope. With the hope…
While by no means a perfectly directed or written movie I am still, two viewings later, completely and utterly captivated and made hollow by the themes and ideas explored in this extraordinarily beautiful and surreal composite of the concepts of personal identity, personal reality, personal connection to the things we hold dear, and how all of these aspects change over time.
At its core I Saw The TV Glow centers around two questions: Who are you really? What are you…
In many ways, this came together incredibly and was very intriguing and refreshing to watch. I appreciated greatly that the eponymous Presence was not at the forefront of the movie, but was mostly the vessel through which the audience engages with the film's subject matter.
Make no mistake, this film is not a horror movie in any sense. The marketing for this has been baffling, because it's a super natural family drama through and through. It had a scene or…
