Steven Soderbergh’s take on the “one for them” approach to filmmaking is always amazing because it somehow indulges all the must haves of popular entertainment while still possessing the director’s own idiosyncrasies and sensibilities. Soderbergh’s later career has found him increasingly interested in the psychological effects of American economics and even in a feel good comedy like Logan Lucky, he is still finding interesting ways to portray these conflicts. The film is sort of an antithesis to Soderbergh’s own Ocean’s…
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Sex Appeal 2022
Had this on in the background as low maintenance noise while putting together a bookshelf and made it three quarters in. So I definitely won’t rate it as I neither finished nor devoted much attention to it. But with what little interaction I had with this film I found every single character insufferably written and it seemed so far divorced from reality as to not even be recognizable as human behavior. And not in a fun, John Waters-esque way. Looks…
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Mank 2020
Mank, despite initial expectations, is not a film about the HOW of Citizen Kane. It is about the WHY of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles’ seminal masterpiece, often hailed as the greatest film of all time, is obviously a story about the price of power and the emptiness of wealth. But in an emotionally reactionary sense, the film means a variety of things to a variety of people. David Fincher’s long gestating passion project thus seeks to explore what it meant…
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Gremlins 1984
My parents forbid me from watching Gremlins for most of my young life. They feared I’d have nightmares from it and wouldn’t sleep well. Which is hilarious, seeing as how I was permitted to view films like Batman Returns and Temple of Doom. When I entered middle school and was finally granted a DVD copy for my for birthday, watching the film felt like a birthright. Like this was the moment where life changed, all because I could watch fucking Gremlins.…
