Prince always had a difficult relationship with the Internet. One minute he loved it enough to post whole albums on it, the next he’d despise it so much that he’d release a whole album only as a cover mount on…
Movie Review: ‘Tabloid Vivant’ is the strangest and best film you won’t understand you’ll see all year
The hell is this film? An erotic thriller? A psychological horror film? A didactic tract on art history and the evolution of aesthetics? For the entirety of Kyle Broom’s Tabloid Vivant I struggled to keep up with a film unconcerned…
Movie Review: ‘Dheepan’ disappoints, doesn’t deserve the Palme
Well, the Powers That Be certainly took their sweet time releasing Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan. You’d think being the recipient of the 2015 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival would have been enough to fast-track any film into wide release.…
Movie Review: ‘Restoration’ is burnt out on bad ends
[SPOILERS AHEAD] Is anybody else burnt out from obligatory Bad Ends in horror films? It feels like horror filmmakers have adopted this strange notion that ending happily somehow invalidates their work. Sometimes bad ends are appropriate. Robert Eggers’s The Witch (2015)…
Movie Review: ‘The Wave’
[Warning — Mild Spoilers Ahead] Families are, of course, a microcosm of humanity in disaster movies. Usually one of their number—invariably the father—comes across warning signs that something terrible threatens their species and/or planet. They are also usually promptly ignored.…
Movie Review: ‘Emelie’
[Mild Spoilers Ahead] Ten minutes into Michael Thelin’s Emelie, I felt queasy and apprehensive. Thirty minutes in I was squirming in my seat, desperately trying to remember the last time a film had made me so uncomfortable—finally settling on Lars…