Intrusive Memories in The Invitation (2015)
2021-05-27
Memories are life’s ephemera and they’re served in morsels. Plus a dinner party from hell.Continue Reading
Lavender (2016) & The Block Island Sound (2020): Home Shall Never be the Same
2021-04-22
These two films tease out ideas about our baggage but only slightly beyond the surface level.Continue Reading
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
2020-12-25
Must be taken with a grain of salt because at the height of the AIDS scare the idea of a woman shacking up with three lovers simultaneously would not fly.Continue Reading
Casino (1995): Better than Goodfellas?
2020-12-18
De Niro pretending he’s a handicapper pretending he’s a hotelier never gets old.Continue Reading
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
2020-08-07
It figures then that the only film worth squat in the franchise was not tainted first-hand by both parties in the diabolical matrimony of the actor-director couple involved.Continue Reading
Goodfellas (1990): Portrait of a Marriage
2020-07-31
For better or for worse, Henry was married to his own private mob.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
Lost in Translation (2003)
2020-05-20
For the longest, I had been wary of falling for the hype whenever I would come across the name of Sofia Coppola’s sophomore feature. It being Hollywood, and the plaudits emanating in unison from professional circles, my pupils dilated on cue for possible warning sings; my qualms about such worksContinue Reading
