Archive for Release Year: 2022

11 posts from 20 August 2023 to 01 April 2022.

  • The Batman

    The Dark Seven, a bit lighter due to contractual obligations. Worth it to go in without any marketing exposure. The Penguin is fucking rad, as are all other birds!

  • The Power of the Dog

    Basic home drama set in the dust bowl ages (even though it seems like the 19th century). Visuals over plot, with top actors.

  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

    Nic Cage plays himself, playing himself. I’ve never meta joke I didn’t like.

  • Salgueiro Maia: O Implicado

    The missing biopic of a forgotten hero. Many civil wars were avoided by his charisma, calm and quietude.

  • Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

    A baby fathered by The Matrix, Shaolin Soccer, Moonlight, and In The Mood for Love. Usually, “stuck in a blender” is a metaphor, but this is a corker. A better multiverse than more Marvel crap.

  • Restos do Vento

    Violence begets violence, silence continues the suffering, vengeful catharsis only delays the problem. In this case, for the next generation.

  • Crimes of the Future

    Body Horror Cronenberg is tight. LifeFormWare.

  • The Whale

    The good kind of Oscar bait, not a bait and switch. The anti-nihilist screed we need for our trying times.

  • The Banshees of Inisherin

    In Inisherin, not In Bruges. It’s an improvement, since the protagonists are depressed common people, instead of depressed hitman.

  • Tár

    MrToo with a woman. I can see with the Oscars steer clear of this, there’s enough controversy with anodyne films, let alone one that takes deep stands in the culture wars.

  • The Northman

    A very modern take on the revenge plot even though our “hero” murders uncountable people in the most gruesome ways, his raiders of the land of Rus burn up hundreds in a barn (Come and See, history rhymes), and not even his mother escapes his night blade. This is exactly what Beowulf wanted to be, but wasn’t.