Live action Looney Tunes, Modern Times/The Gold Rush, Oregon Trail (yes the PC a game!) mash up that commits to the bits harder than anything I’ve seen.
One of the most genuinely unique, laugh out loud hilarious films I’ve seen in awhile. It is a gag a minute madcap ride that just builds and builds the absurdity. Marx Brothers plus Tex Avery. How can a movie so deftly pull off the physical comedy of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie…
Beautiful, cold, distant. Full of vacuous objects and people. Astounding how much this influenced. Wes Anderson, The Godfather, the Sopranos (Pine Barrens), Taxi Driver, Mishima and even Clueless!
Marcello is a perfect allegorical tool, craving order and morality above all else, except when he doesn’t. A low key nervy weasel who wanders into numerously gloriously sexy scenarios whole being a genealogy
Putz. This is a crazy intense political thriller, except that it isn’t! I somehow expected that this would be…
I came in ready to love this. I thought it was “ok.”. Very well crafted and well acted, and I got the underlying themes.
I don’t like films that’s are overly concerned with food, I don’t love depictions of elite culture (even adjacent) and I have a chip on my shoulder about things being too self serious. All that is here, big time. Obsession, Kink and power dynamics, there are plenty of movies like that I like. I dig a…
Let me get this out of the way: Texas and California forming an alliance is so hard to believe it’s what is known as a “first page problem.” A full stop flaw in logic that keeps the reader from moving on. I honestly expect better from Garland, who I find a compelling and smart writer.
It wouldn’t happen, and moreover there is zero interest in even coming with an explanation for it (caveat: after complaining about this some, I actually…
Richly humanistic and nuanced portrayal of isolated broken people helping each other. Not just set in the 1970s, but FEELS like the 1970s. This is a terrifically bittersweet, touching and frequently very funny character study made for adults. Giamatti is really great here as a stodgy glass eyed grump of a history Professor. Loathed by his students, who are stuck with him over the Christmas holiday at school. This film, like Sideways shows that Giamatti and Payne really are a…
