“We'd like to get to the point where Connor is everywhere, like oxygen or gravity or clinical depression.”
Not feeling well and this was the perfect pick-me-up as it always is. Love everything about Popstar from its ever timely pop-music industry critique to its hilariously great music to its wonderful joke density. So many fantastic lines, bits, and gags to go around. Arguably my favorite comedy of the 2010s.
“Maybe I belong in a cage…”
Have very fond memories when I was a kid of my dad bringing home a DVD with The Incredible Hulk Returns on one side and The Trial of the Incredible Hulk on the other. We sat down and watched both and I had a great time! Was always a Hulk fan and really enjoyed these team-up features, the latter moreso given the presence of Daredevil.
Revisiting Trial after many, many years, I was so pleasantly surprised…
A monumental and staggering work. Haunting, tragic, and violent, showing both the depths and heights of humanity. Scorsese walks an incredibly delicate balance of showing a glimpse of the horrors of what the Osage endured during the Reign of Terror while also making the audience feel complicity as it shows every layer of the conspiracy. By the end, there are questions as to whether any real justice has been done, and all we are left with is the fact that the story, both through books and film, is now being told.
If anyone is looking for a definition or meaning behind the terms ‘dystopian nightmare’ or ‘nightmare hellscape,’ look no further than Phil Tippett’s Mad God. A truly horrifying, grotesque, visceral descent into Hell and madness captured through nothing but visual storytelling, breathtaking animation, and an oppressive cacophony of apocalyptic machinery.
In the world of Mad God, life is meant for nothing more than to serve or suffer (often both). Death is cheap, a tool of oppression relished as much as…
