This is an amusing short little film that graciously does not even tilt toward existential meandering. We have before us a road-trip, but there is little concern as to the destination, or even journey itself – but simply the reactivity of the filmmaker touring his film at every tiny hole-in-the-wall with a projector, a […]

  I admit, To the Wonder goes above my head. Terrence Malik appears to be fleshing out a technique he has adopted since The Thin Red Line, where he is transforming film into cinematic literature. Which is not to de-elevate cinema with this synergy – only that the style is very literary, which makes it […]

Nightcrawlers is a more dramatic rendition of Anchorman 2. The latter’s unanticipated profound brilliance in satirizing the remediation of news, a product that is presented to convey truth about the world the audience viewer inhabits, is nothing more than another occupation in mindful distractions away from that same world, which is never always hospitable to […]

  David Lynch was actually a bit disappointing here with Blue Velvet. Not to say the film lacks quality, it simply lacks his signature psychosis. Yes, there exists that quasi-Tarantino under world – though admittedly this film existed before Reservoir Dogs was a twinkle in Quentin’s eye. At best we have a very simple-minded plot […]

  They Came Together is a nice spoof on the romantic comedy. Its humor does not border on the agitated unfunny, where its visible efforts of trying to hard still come across as comical. I liken it to Airplane! or the Naked Gun series but without the dorkiness.   It’s interesting how comedy really another […]

Peggy wanted a child. Or so she thought. It was part of her pre-packaged life, cookie-cut out of the raw dough that led her to being confronted genuinely with the fact that reality does not care very much about one’s plans. It is curious to contemplate how many individuals in this world are self-motivated to […]

  Oh how much do we take for granted. I’m talking about civilization of course. Being thrusted into such plush surroundings makes us forget of the eons long perpetual investments man has made in bettering his habitat. This is all in an effort to at the least protect himself from the wildness of nature as […]

  In Nymphomaniac we are told a short story on the history of a particular woman not so much battling an addiction as expressing herself uncontrollably sexually, without shame in it. The main course of the tale is told to an asexual man who rescues her from an alleyway and attempts to revive her. Such […]

  Togetherness is a TV series that realizes the very tepid nature of young families. There is no more excitement, no more energy that clearly is shown deep underneath what appears to be the well-put together couple at the center of the film. While their friends are seemingly ship-wrecked, with one having been evicted as […]

  I was inspired to watch this film after viewing an interview with Francis Ford Copolla where he produced this film in between his Godfather movies. He downplayed it’s littleness. Indeed it does have a very narrow focus, with a very simple narrative, but it cannot be denied how difficult the cinematic sculpture around even […]