Tag: 2017
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Falling in love at the end of the world, in Wim Wenders’ Submergence
Ladies, if your fella isn’t returning your calls, maybe he’s a secret agent on a tippy-top secret mission for queen and country. Fellas, if your girl isn’t liking your posts, maybe she has zero bars because she’s doing science stuff on the ocean floor. I went into Submergence fully aware of the generally negative reviews,…
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Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” earns its exclamation point
Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is an allegory so undisguised that it barely qualifies as one. It’s more like a cinematic smoothie: blend one (1) King James Bible, the Big Bang / Big Crunch Wikipedia article, a heavy splash of Lars Von Trier-esque literal-as-metaphorical torture of a beautiful woman, season to taste with climate change science, and…
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An Excerpt From the Sequel to Mike White’s Brad’s Status
An excerpt from the screenplay to Mike White‘s forthcoming sequel to Brad’s Status, under the working title Get the &%#$ Over Yourself, Brad: FADE IN: INT. BRAD’S DEN – NIGHT BRAD slumps in his sofa, staring morosely at his TV as the end credits of Mike White’s movie Brad’s Status scroll past. An array of…
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Famously chill dude Keanu Reeves goes on a killing spree in John Wick: Chapter 2
I want to enjoy action movies like the popular John Wick franchise, but the gun worship spoils everything.