I'd sell my soul for a bottle of beer.
2001: A Space Odyssey might be the greatest film ever made, but to me The Shining will always be Kubrick's magnum opus. There is no other film like The Shining. Every trope this film uses has been saturated to death by dozens of lesser horror movies, yet none of them come close to accomplishing what it does. You can get two pretty surface level reads from this film on a first…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Fight Club has been an all time favorite of mine since the first time I saw it. Like everyone I was fixated on the ~mindblowing~ double identity and that was enough for me to consider it a masterpiece. Well, that and the fact that the cinematography/score/script/performances are all absolutely god tier. I did recognize the political and social undertones (not sure if that's the right word it's not subtle at all lol) as I got older, but here I am,…
Much funnier than I expected based on some of his more recent material. Edgy as expected but he refrains from truly punching down, even when his Gen X starts showing. Really appreciate his material maturing with him, as well. Solid hour of comedy, Burr's still one of the funniest guys working right now.
Have known this story for years, saw the house tape and all that, but seeing it all laid out just really made my heart churn. Idk man. Can watch people get torn to shreds and come out bored but true crime stuff kinda gets to me, especially anything involving kids. I think it's very important to view life in different shades of gray, and it's healthy to, understand the situations and mindsets of people who act upon the darker aspects…
Evangelion's swansong is both a deconstruction of and a final love letter to Hideaki Anno's magnum opus. 3.0+1.0 succeeds on every level that 3.33 failed and singlehandedly justifies the rebuild movies - both as subversions and complements to Neon Genesis Evangelion. It serves as a perfect foil to The End of Evangelion, arriving to roughly the same conclusion by taking a wildly different path, while also adding a true sense of finality, of closure, of moving forward. Beautiful, cathartic, subversive,…
Recently there's been an album making waves within the online music community. 파란노을 (Parranoul)'s To See the Next Part of the Dream. It certainly captured my interest and is one of my favorites of 2021 so far. It's a wondrous blend of shoegaze, emo, and noise pop. Reading the album's description on Bandcamp reveals a lot about it, but most relevant to this review is a few works that the artist cites as influences. All About Lily Chou-Chou, Goodnight Punpun,…
