Letterboxd — Your life in film

Dual is by far the most disappointing film from Sundance, it was one of my most anticipated of the festival and unfortunately it’s just not strong enough. Granted there are some good bits here Karen Gillian’s deadpan performance actually worked pretty well here despite the humor being a major issue and Aaron Paul is also really great as well. The cinematography is quite great and makes the film look pretty big, but unfortunately the movie doesn’t take advantage of that…

Horror films like Orphan and The Omen are perhaps more frightening than many films of the genre because they twist our perception of children. Most parents raise their children to be as angelic as they believe they were when they came out of the womb, so children being born evil or capable of evil is perhaps frightening to them because it means they failed. But children aren’t born pure, as writer-director Eskil Vogt explains in an interview with the Norwegian…

Okay, am I the only one who thought this movie wasn’t a Christian movie? 

Beside the fact that I think most religious people would almost certainly find it blasphemous, I think there’s a big difference between a movie where the goal of a character is to convince someone of something and the goal of the movie is to convince the audience of that thing. 

I think a lot of people are missing the point. I think this is about the…

Awful movie. A bunch of outback hunters basically stalk a woman on a nature reserve. The film has to bend over backwards to stretch to a reasonable running time, so rather than do anything remotely believable the hunters do weird things like sticking photographs they've taken of her inside her fridge, or buy one of her artworks and then use it for shooting practice. The decisions every character takes at any point seem inexplicable and unnatural - the basic building…

Criterion Collection Spine #306
(Foreign language film)

A cool and calculated assassin is put the ultimate test when the line between his allies and the authorities begins to blur.

I completely agree that Le Samouraï is a very stylish landmark film in the crime noir genre, but its simplistic story and very methodical pacing kept me from ever getting fully invested in it.

Despite the main character Jef Costello being a meticulous hitman, I never really got a samurai vibe…

SNAKEHEAD, I thought, was supposed to be a thrilling action drama as a woman who was smuggled into the U.S. becomes a smuggler herself and quickly rises ranks within the gang. I guess that does happen, but I didn’t find it thrilling or very action packed. The flat line reading left me feeling completely disengaged from the film and the characters. The script needed some further work. The characters also felt underdeveloped. The numerous flashback scenes of Sister Tse losing…

Despite going into the midnight release really hyped to see how Craig’s tenure would wrap up, I came away thoroughly underwhelmed and disappointed  as a Bond fan. No Time To Die is not a Bond film, in fact it’s kind of an anti-Bond film. It completely forgoes the traditions and staples of the series all in the name of delivering something more “modern” and “emotional”. It doesn’t tick any of my boxes, all of the entertaining elements of previous entries…