What do you know about God?
This now being my fourth film of his, and the fourth in a row that I've really enjoyed, I think Nagisa Oshima's got that dog in 'im. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence will likely always remain my favorite of his, but Death by Hanging certainly put up one hell of a fight. Starts out as a 12 Angry Men type procedural before slowly revealing its hand as Kafkaesque existential horror as much as it a…
The watch is nice!
I don't really know where "Michelle Yeoh plays Indiana Jones" has been all my life, but I'm glad to at least have it now. I feel like I'm fairly confidently underrating this with this first watch, because I was in an absolutely awful mood while watching it. At the very least, I got to watch something this fun and pulpy when I was going through it. Of the recent martial arts film viewings I've had, the…
"Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake."
In one word, grating. Before I say anything beyond that, I'm going to make something clear: I wholly get what Oliver Stone and company were doing here. You can't miss what this movie is supposed to be about. It's decent messaging. Of course we glorify killers in the media. Of course humans are hypocritical with violence. The way the film is made, I also understand that this movie is likely meant to…
Something in the Way
A whole lot of movie, and the most "genre film" a superhero movie has been in I'm not really sure how long. I don't know man, considering that sometimes this film subgenre forgets that it has its roots within the likes of crime thrillers, science fiction, fantasy and so on, it's wonderful to see a movie that somehow has its cake and eats it too with being "dark" of course while still pulpy and just over…
