Directed by John Carpenter It's a simple story. In a small coastal town it's the 100th year to the day that the town was born and something spooky once happened. As a result there is a ghostly curse which calls for six people to die, and the quickly established cast of characters must buck the … Continue reading The Fog (1980)
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Mid90s (2018)
Directed by Jonah Hill Mid90s is the latest in a welcome trend of personal movies made by people who care about what they're saying. Standing in contrast to the remakes, superhero movies and CGI-laden action movies, they are unique in their own way, still sharing certain similarities that speak to the overlap in the human … Continue reading Mid90s (2018)
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Directed by David Lowery The Old Man & the Gun is a cross between a Robert Redford homage and a David Lowery movie. This means that we get a story about a charismatic, good 'ol fashion livin' handsome bank robber complete with a purposefully 1970's aesthetic as well as a sweet, at times melancholic but … Continue reading The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
First Man (2018)
Directed by Damien Chazelle When Apollo 11 hurdles its way to the lunar surface the camera remains inside the module, cramped in there along with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Other movies would cross cut between the two astronauts, the Houston control room and Armstrong's nervous wife, Janet, but First Man doesn't give us such breathing … Continue reading First Man (2018)
Rampage (2018)
Directed by Brad Peyton San Andreas must've been a hit because director Brad Peyton and Dwayne Johnson are at it again, this time destroying a CGI-rendered Chicago. The antagonist this time isn't a natural disaster but unnaturally large predators in the style of Godzilla and King Kong. Along with the giant lizard creature and giant … Continue reading Rampage (2018)
Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
Directed by Ivan Reitman Six Days, Seven Nights is essentially Frank Capra's Cast Away, combining the trapped on an island plot with the romantic comedy of It Happened One Night. Like with that movie the two romantic leads must first hate each other in order to establish that fine line which then gives way to love. The … Continue reading Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
Kimuko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
Directed by David Zellner In Kimuko, The Treasure Hunter, a 29 year-old woman from Japan heads to America to find the treasure from the Coen Brothers’ 1996 film Fargo. Her search for something from a fictional story brings to mind the fruitless, stubborn efforts of a Werner Herzog character (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo), and her motivation has … Continue reading Kimuko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
A Star is Born (2018)
Directed by Bradley Cooper A Star is Born is a melodrama in which celebrity, it seems, is a zero sum game. The movie tracks the romance between a fading star musician, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) and an up and coming pop star, Ally (Lady Gaga). They meet by chance, in the ways Hollywood lovers do, … Continue reading A Star is Born (2018)
Kid-Thing (2012)
Directed by David Zellner Annie (Sydney Aguirre) is a bit of an asshole in Kid-Thing, a black comedy about a future Ted Bundy. She's emotionless, isolated and becoming increasingly violent thanks to endless days with no leash and a father who doesn't know any better than to let her run wild. When he finds out she … Continue reading Kid-Thing (2012)
The Finest Hours (2016)
Directed by Craig Gillespie The Finest Hours is an okay but conventional dramatization of the real life rescue of thirty-two workers aboard a sinking oil tanker. It stars Chris Pine doing a possibly accurate but nevertheless distracting Boston accent and Ben Foster doing much the same. In the middle is Casey Affleck playing a more … Continue reading The Finest Hours (2016)
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