Review – Waves (2020)
An ambitious, sensory explosion of pathos. Life is a tide-to-tide crash of love and loss, tragedy and grace. Adversity both
Read moreAn ambitious, sensory explosion of pathos. Life is a tide-to-tide crash of love and loss, tragedy and grace. Adversity both
Read moreA Kaiju-stuffed calamity. The path towards Godzilla: King of the Monsters has been, for lack of a better word, pornographic. The
Read moreExplosion of fantasy, theatrics and reality. “You gotta kill the person you were born to be to become the person
Read more‘Guns… a lot of guns.’ Keanu Reeve’s connection to the neo-western genre now goes beyond the prefix. In the latest
Read moreBewildering, penetrative sci-fi. Endless blackness, an infinite stretch of both everything and nothing, mesmerizing but (literally) suffocating in its incomprehensible
Read moreThe King renaissance hits a bump. There’s a sad irony in digging up and bringing back Stephen King’s horrific grief
Read moreBig meets Superman. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall” is the old adage. Just as DC were once
Read moreBonkers, dense and straight up scary. “Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to
Read moreA decade-too-late entry in the deathtrap genre. Cast your mind back to 2006, where creative, gruesome dismemberment is a sure-fire
Read moreMad Max: Fury Road on LSD. Once briefly a harmless jingle, inevitably becoming a near-perturbing earworm, 2014 was the year
Read moreGripping, twisted, authenticated caper. There’s a scene in Can You Ever Forgive Me?where a self-applauding prig boastfully tells fellow authors that
Read moreA touching capper to an all-timer animated trilogy. Despite a jarring change to their classic pre-feature fishing reel, Dreamworks are
Read moreGenuine spectacle rises above the scraps. Manga has had a tricky, often unsuccessful journey to the big screen. Look at
Read moreThe streets have never felt so warm. Moonlight, a luminous, powerful look at the infliction of intersectionality on a black,
Read moreFickle, hokey, silly; all the things it shouldn’t have been. M. Night Shyamalan’s tenure saw a downward spiral through the
Read moreChaos confused with flourish. “How does a man go on to become who he is?” the narrator (Jesse Plemons) ponders
Read moreA divine vision, both inspiring and disquieting. Films, by their very nature, are a team effort. There are a colossal
Read moreMuscular and mythical, tiresome and nauseating. You never forget your first, they say. Lars von Trier entered my life in
Read moreAn otherwise strongly performed piece suffocated by its director. Addiction is a curse. Addiction is a self-regulatory, horrific cycle. Addiction
Read moreFirst-rate Spidey meets world-class animation. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse shouldn’t work. The stupefying, impossibly conceived action sequences beckon belief, the
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