Reminded me a lot of Cul De Sac and Walk on the Wild Side, but I definitely like this more than either of those! The premise is amazing—what better place for a hostage situation than a hurricane on a hotel in the Florida Keys. I went in hoping for that storm to be viscous one way ratchet, billowing with the tension of heist. Instead, it’s largely a flat affair. There is a storm, there is a hotel, there is Bogart…
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The Help 2011
I’m gonna do something nobody has ever done before and insinuate that this film is a little white savior-y—applaud me for my massive brain and stunning insights into the world of cinema. But you don’t have to throw the baby out with the bath water! The performances from both the help and the people they’re helping are brilliant—who knew Bryce Dallas Howard could be so mean! I was also utterly sold on the ambience of the setting during the storm…
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499 2020
It really did it for me! I should say I’m no impartial observer—I have been chipping away at a giant book of Mexican history for the better part of two months so you could say I was in the right headspace. The presentation of the film is so contrary to popular notions of Mexico today as dreary and noisy, but it also sharply contrasts other bombastic portrayals of conquistadors/hispanic colonization. Maybe the closest analog is Aguirre, especially near the end…
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The Holdovers 2023
I almost didn’t watch this movie but I’m so glad that I did! It felt a little strange to have a contemporary movie that is so consciously 70s, but I think the effect was fairly natural for the most part. It didn’t quite have the same fuzziness as most contemporary editions of 70s films—McCabe and Ms Miller would never have been shot on a camera like this—but the artificial grain was tasteful, and it has one of the more inspired…
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