Archive for Release Year: 2021

25 posts from 20 April 2024 to 08 June 2020.

  • Red Riding Hood

    Mixed Metaphors: The Movie. Sympathy for the Devil you know from childhood, since you brutally slaughtered baby rabbits with the future Wolfman.

  • Um Jantar Muito Original

    A modest proposal to serve man. This is an adaptation of a story by Fernando Pessoa, in his Alexander Search heteronyms.

  • Those Who Wish Me Dead

    If a film is shot all over green screen greenery and fire, can it be considered an animation film? Does the pope shit in the woods?

  • The Mauritanian

    Mohamedou was brought to Gitmo in August 2002, and was only release the week before Trump was elected. He won the case that would set him free just as Obama was being elected. The wheels of justice move slowly, but can be greased by elections.

  • Space Sweepers

    NANOMACHINES, SON! Akira for the younger generation.

  • Paraíso

    Oh, the humanity. It oozes from the screen.

  • Titane

    Violenté par une voiture. A more French version of mother!, and also Christine and Cronenberg’s Crash (not Crash).

  • Sombra

    Boyhood, without the boy. Burn my shadow away…

  • France

    An untranslatable avant-garde look at French mainstream society, Virgil-ed by a pop TV presenter. Brilliant, nobody ever done this before, magnificent.

  • Dune

    Lord of the Sands. One Shai-Hulud to rule them all, one Lisan al-Gaib to bind them.

  • Benedetta

    Paul Verhoeven does a simpler version of Elle, with added black plague. Another unnecessary addition is the “based on a real story” bullshit.

  • The French Dispatch

    A series of shorts, a simple excuse for Wes and friends to make fun of The New Yorker in France at the producers dime. Just like the story itself! The producers indulge him because they know they will have a masterpiece in the end. The pinnacle of artistic indulgence.

  • The Matrix Resurrections

    A moderately entertaining affair, between the bitter lashing out at Warner Brothers for forcing their hand and making them release a fourth Matrix. To compensate, they reversed everything.

  • Nightmare Alley

    Be careful what you wish for. There’s always a bigger fish, the conman becomes the mark.

  • Fabian: Going to the Dogs

    The opening says it all: a tracking shot of a modern subway station cuts seamlessly to the same subway in 1931 Berlin, right in the middle of an election campaign.

  • Candyman

    I see the trappings of a good horror film, and totally agree with the message, but this tries to have its social justice cake and gore slasher scenes for the “ratings”. It feels disjointed.

  • The Desperate Hour

    Locke and key, a similar concept. A bit more dynamic, more Apple product placement, but moderately enjoyable. Naomi Watts as a mom is still weird, I watched Mullholland Drive too long ago, it tainted her image for ever.

  • Gunpowder Milkshake

    John Wick meets Stranger Things, with Karen Gillian, with added killer escorting a child, like all modern fiction. This has much less action than John Wick, it’s more focused on the female side, makes it more balanced.

  • Malignant

    Half horror drama, like a baby’s first The Ring, half buddy cop film, with a no-nonsense sassy black woman and a younger detective, being biblically chased by the CSI girl and the killer’s sister. Doesn’t really gel.

  • Mortal Kombat

    The 2021 version. Yet another version of the same silly plot, with better actors and modern effects. Ironically, they must have reused a lot of the game itself, the latter versions are identical.

  • The Suicide Squad

    Wait, another bloated superhero film with Harley Quinn and other people? Am I having Deja Vu? I’m just here for Ratcatcher, the weaksauce hero that saves the day.

  • No Time to Die

    That’s no time to die, all right. Several decades too late. The complete anachronism of the whole thing is getting more and more preposterous. NANOMACHINES, SON!

  • Venom: Let There Be Carnage

    Another red Venom, yay. Haven’t seen the dozen of necessary Marvel shit to properly appreciate the references. Boring as fuck normal Marvel crap..

  • The Tomorrow War

    Low rent pastiche of other, better sci-fi films, with a way bigger budget it deserved. So much combat, it never ends, relentless bottomless magazines.

  • Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

    So this is another reboot, for the money. They got that right, there’s a Jill Sandwich joke in the first minutes.