Beau Is Afraid. 2023. Directed by Ari Aster.
All Mothers’ Are Not Created Equal.
Beau Is Afraid (2023) is Ari Aster’s blend of cinema that seems to serve as an homage to Synecdoche, New York (2008) written and directed by Charlie Kaufman while showing signs of A Serious Man (2009) written and directed by the Coen Brothers. Joachim Phoenix (Beau Wassermann) is on an epic Homeric journey but more in the Jewish vein. Despite coming from a family of tremendous…
Everything Everywhere All At Once. 2022. Directed by Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Daniels). 🏳️🌈🫶🏳️🌈💖🏳️🌈🫶🏳️🌈🫶💖🏳️🌈🫶
“You tell me that it’s a cruel world… and we are all running around in circles. I know that. I have been on this earth as many days as you.” Waymond Wang.
We just left an IMAX auditorium in a multiplex in which there was a two to five minute standing ovation. It was if we were at a film festival. We were at a special…
Oppenheimer. 2023. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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No CGI and shot on IMAX film, Christopher Nolan has made another magnum opus In Oppenheimer (2023). The cast is as bombastic as the atomic bomb. Florence Pugh lets it all hang out as Jean Tatlock J. Robert Oppenheimer’s unstable lover. However, we would like to have seen a bit more of the character in costume with backstory. In other words, Pugh was limited to several nude scenes and a suicide. I know…
Barbie. 2023. Directed by Greta Gerwig.
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So pink, so existential, and the dance numbers parallel some of the best musicals ever made. Barbie is a marvel made by Marvel. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach made a film that is sooo Barbie and soo Kenough that we laughed, wept, and rejoiced with an LGBTQ audience full of pink. PINK!!!
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The Power of the Dog. 2021. Directed by Jane Campion.
The Power of the Dog (2021) is like going to a museum and seeing art that truly resonates with ones spirit. Benedict Cumbertach’s character Phil Burbank was in love and obsessed with Bronco Henry. Jane Campion’s and Thomas Savage’s script was tight and the film had a fast pace despite the barren wilderness. Jonny Greenwood’s score was haunting and followed the characters while keeping the tension and suspense high.
The…
The Northman. 2022. Directed by Robert Eggers.
I went through a Rune making ceremony when I was 18. Before I could make my runes the instructor advised me to read a book about the history of the Futharks (The runes evolution). At any rate, making Runes is a mystical/esoteric experience (that was an honor and a privilege) and gives one the ability to cast fortunes. We added our own blood into the paint and mixture that eventually became the elder…
