David Mirkin’s 1997 Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is a whacky cross-country romp for the girlies with excellent pacing and mise en scene. Jokes come at a natural clip and everything on screen is significant. Props are set delicately and crash into frame, providing instant context before any dialogue starts. Certain sequences are predictable, but it’s deliberate. If you miss the context clues that something is perhaps a dream sequence or not quite what it seems, the film does an…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
captured the miniature style of old school Godzilla films as well as the persisting horror of war. one of the most realistic depictions of an atomic blast, at least visually. many critics have already praised its core themes of Japan’s post-WWII despondency and the protagonists’ personal vendetta against an insurmountable, almost ineffable force of destruction. the atom bomb and Godzilla share immense parallels, not only in sheer power but also as painful, lingering, and shocking sources of motivation for the victims.
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TerrorVision 1986
TerrorVision (1986) by Ted Nicolaou is a display of his good taste, a self-indulgent yet well-structured film about how much gore he can pass by the censors in 83 minutes. Overly candid parents (the mother tells her children to stay out of the way because they plan on swinging that night) and a heavy-handed hammering of first-scene exposition does a lot to support the rest of the movie even if it feels awkward on its own. By clearing up all…
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The Blob 1988
Chuck Russell's 1988 reprisal of The Blob has fantastic practical effects, stuff that had me cringing and drooling at the mouth, but the characters were pretty flat. For as much detail their lives got in the beginning, their character arcs plateaued, taking a backseat to the carnage. Their lives became petty and unimportant in the face of a greater evil, which I think its climactic finale was trying to convey, but I struggled to reconcile that with the fact that…
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