“Didn’t you hear? I was acquitted!”
“Not by me…”
Had a good time revisiting Daredevil. Always had a soft spot for this one ever since I was a kid despite acknowledging it was never particularly great. Kind of a perfect encapsulation of the early-2000s superhero boom - doesn’t reach the heights of Raimi’s Spider-Man films but also markedly better than something like Catwoman.
Overall it’s pretty unbalanced. There are plenty of fun, stylistic shots that feel they could have been ripped…
Seen at The Henry Ford Giant Screen Experience
Convinced more and more upon every rewatch that The Wrong Trousers is one of the best things to ever grace the medium of film.
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…
