Directed by Jon Watts Clown, about a man turning into a child-eating clown, is disturbing and thus incredibly effective. It's one of those troubling horror movies that, though it follows certain conventions, wades into frightening, disgusting territory and provokes incredibly upsetting feelings within the viewer. On one hand such feelings may make it easy to write … Continue reading Clown (2014)
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The Crying Game (1992)
Directed by Neil Jordan The Crying Game is both quite unexpected and very familiar. It's a movie made up of two distinct stories, handing off the baton between two protagonists while the most interesting character remains off to the side. She is Dil (Jaye Davidson), the love interest of a soldier, Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped … Continue reading The Crying Game (1992)
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Directed by Steven S. DeKnight Pacific Rim: Uprising is very much just an 'okay' movie. I'm not sure what more there is to say. The performances are a bit of a drag, if only because there seems to be a lot of effort only to recapture what worked about the first movie, but the visual … Continue reading Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Directed by Tim Burton Beetlejuice is a macabre wonder. It's a blend of the same bright, colorful, purposefully Mayberry-esque small town that you see in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, with the dark and slimy world of something like a German expressionist horror film. Adam and Barbara (Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis), are a happilyy married couple in that … Continue reading Beetlejuice (1988)
Crazy Heart (2009)
Directed by Scott Cooper In Crazy Heart an aging musician finds renewed purpose thanks to a brief romance with a much younger woman. That musician is Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges), a country star who has traded in theaters and stadiums for bowling alleys and dive bars. Blake's journey is ripe with movie cliches and tropes. He's … Continue reading Crazy Heart (2009)
Cop Car (2015)
Directed by Jon Watts In Cop Car two ten year-old runaways stumble upon a cop car somewhere in the woods. They hop in, fantasizing their way through a joy ride. Then they find the car keys and after some brief debate jump into an actual joyride. The cop is Sheriff Kretzer (Kevin Bacon), and for … Continue reading Cop Car (2015)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Directed by Gene Saks The plot of The Odd Couple orbits divorce, taking place in a time when I have to assume divorce was still a stigmatized novelty. Most of the jokes are derived from the very idea that two middle-aged men could share an apartment, especially as they quickly fall into a conventional husband-wife dynamic. … Continue reading The Odd Couple (1968)
Hal (2018)
Directed by Amy Scott Hal is a wonderful little documentary if only because so much of Hal Ashby's life feels as of yet unearthed. Or maybe that's just my perspective. Hal Ashby (1929-1988) was one of the best directors of the 1970s. A former editor, mythologized for how he would work nonstop, in a cloud … Continue reading Hal (2018)
Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (2017)
Directed by Christian Papierniak Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town is a punk rock little movie made in the style of something from the early 90s, deeply colored with qualities of other Gen X movies. Mackenzie Davis plays Izzy, down on her luck and stewing in her own misery. When she learns that her ex-boyfriend Roger (Alex … Continue reading Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (2017)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Directed by Gus Van Sant In Drugstore Cowboy a small gang of four junkies in Portland fight to survive and to get high. They are a little group of outlaws with no intent to do harm but who will do whatever it takes to feel extraordinary. Led by the charismatic Bob (Matt Dillon), they have … Continue reading Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
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