Directed by Rob Letterman Detective Pikachu is just about exactly what it sounds like. It's a detective thriller in a world with pokémon, and when you put those two things together you get something a lot like Zootopia. It's a diverse environment, between creatures and animals, and it turns out the bad guys are infecting these … Continue reading Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018)
Directed by Bi Gan I've never seen anything like Long Day's Journey Into Night. It's an unsettling, sleepy and disorienting tale about a man looking for a woman from his past, or maybe she only ever existed in his dreams, it's hard to recall. Remembering the story is like trying to piece together the fragments of … Continue reading Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018)
Boomerang! (1947)
Directed by Elia Kazan Rationality is on full display in Elia Kazan's Boomerang!, a film about the quick conviction and acquittal (due to matters of politics and convenience) of a man accused of murder. The hero here is prosecutor Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews), a young man with sudden political aspirations after the powers that be … Continue reading Boomerang! (1947)
House of Games (1987)
Directed by David Mamet House of Games is one of those movies about a con man in which the audience itself is supposed to be fooled. You see this in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and in a movie like Now You See It, and such sleight of hand is a tricky thing to pull off. There are … Continue reading House of Games (1987)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Directed by Billy Wilder [EDIT: This is a long, rambling review as I try to figure out what Stalag 17 is really about. By the end I decide it's about the postwar conditions of the 1950s, specifically the red scare. It takes me a while to get there, and I still might be completely missing the … Continue reading Stalag 17 (1953)
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