Hit Record (2020)
2020-12-15
What does this film say about success if a tone-deaf, off-key wannabe singer can find a measure of it?Continue Reading
The Wicker Man (1973)
2020-12-11
In The Wicker Man, the intrigue lies beyond simple machinations. And it is in the periphery where the film leaves its mark.Continue Reading
The Ritual (2017) Netflix
2020-11-28
It does not transcend standard fare precisely because elevating its legend to esoteric knowledge makes it inaccessible and exclusive.Continue Reading
Mirage (2018) Netflix
2020-10-13
Oriol Paulo specializes in middle-of-the-road thrillers despite incidental facade and roadside attractions.Continue Reading
Tenet (2020): Time Colliding into Itself
2020-10-11
Somehow, Tenet comes out unscathed though not because of anything of its own doing.Continue Reading
Dark – Season 1 – Episode 1
2020-08-17
The structure of a separate era per season was already spoiled for me.Continue Reading
Lone Survivor (2013) Pashtunwali in Action
2020-06-19
The Afghan code, Pashtunwali, got me here.Continue Reading
The Girl on the Train (2016)
2020-06-11
A film doomed to withstand comparisons to a more realized predecessor in Fincher’s Gone Girl.Continue Reading
Uncut Gems (2019) – Shit and Colonoscopies
2020-05-25
Uncut Gems begins with a colonoscopy and, though artful, ends with an equally intrusive view of a bullet wound. The implication being that Howard Ratner is full of shit no matter how he dresses up excuses for not ever having the money he owes.Continue Reading
