Reviews

An amazing follow up

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a well crafted sequel that sets up for an amazing film trilogy. While I personally enjoyed 28 Years Later (2025) more than Bone Temple, it does not take away the joy...

An Unlikely Sequel

Coming thirty-five years after a cult classic, Blade Runner 2049 is an unlikely sequel. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner saw little commercial success at the box office, despite becoming a cult classic in...

A nation wide but an inch deep

This was not the book I anticipated. I first saw this on the desk of someone at work. I quickly found the book on Amazon and bought it. Sitting there on my shelf for almost 4 years I had assumed this...

Review of Precipice

It was polite of Lychgate to begin Precipice with an intro track. For one thing, it’s a fun to have an orchestral march-to-war to build anticipation. For another, it’s about the only thing polite abou...

Evil Dead Coasts...

Evil Dead is a franchise that has multiple personalities. Sometimes skin-crawling horror. Sometimes hilarious camp carnival. I don’t begrudge the fans of Bruce Campbell’s campaign of goofy violence fo...

Review of Flesh + Blood

Judiciary waste no time introducing themselves on Flesh + Blood, so I will follow suit. The Texas outfit return with 31 minutes of unbridled chaos. The band has named influences of the metalcore and t...

Review of Higher Lonely Power

Higher Lonely Power wasn’t originally planned to be released on New Year’s Day of 2023, but if you’re in a band called Fireworks, New Year’s is as good a day as any. The Detroit rockers possess an ins...

Great, Yet Capable of More

As someone who grew up during the rise of deathcore, it is a bit strange that I missed the train considering all of the “traditional” metalcore I was listening to. Before I knew it, deathcore had seem...

Personal Battles in a Global War

When I started the book I had made some assumptions about what this book was going to say, who the characters were, where it was going. The first of the main characters shown I thought was going to be...

“A deeply sad film. Merry Christmas.”

“Love the way the camera just floats around the entire time with no rhyme or reason”

“The visual aspect of Rear Window - the complexity of looking - is incredibly interesting and the crux of the movie, but I think it is actually the sound design that I found most fascinating on this watch.”

“There's a special place in hell for those who AI colorize old B&W movies, especially those as beautifully photographed as this. Fuck off so so hard. It looks like shit, you are making fucking trash.”

“Laurence Fishburne is so hot in this movie, holy shit 😭 Movie also rocks in every other department, but god damn”

“Was Brakhage the greatest editor of celluloid film to ever do it?”

Review of Naqoyqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi is great in many ways. One of those ways is Reggio's deftness at finding both visual and thematic links between images. The film flows both logically and unpredictably the first time you...

Review of PlayTime

Always hilarious, but overwhelming in its visual imagination and sonic polyphony. I found much of PlayTime to be quite sad, a vision (or rather, a reflection) of a sterile world where everyone dresses...

“Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I love that band a lot! Maybe my favorite band! Hmmmmmm. This is a wonderful film! Good job 😁”

Review of Malcolm X

Lee's use of Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come has to be among the greatest needle drops ever. I first saw this back in high school, and I enjoyed it but sort of just saw it as a really well made bio...

“An incredibly unpleasant movie.”

“This is like when I watched Citizen Kane before Mank came out.”

“This did not do as much for me as I expected nor wanted it to, but the opening overture is pure magic, like all-timer stuff. Will have to revisit some time.”

“Maybe Ōshima's best film (out of what I've seen, which is quite a lot at this point). I might still prefer the formal boldness of Night and Fog in Japan, but this is just as angry as any movie he ever made (and still bold, just in a more measured way). Awesome stuff.”

Review of Princess Mononoke

Was sort of underwhelmed the first time I saw this (I'm gonna chalk up a large portion of that to having originally watched the dub, a mistake now rectified). Seeing it in the theater, it is now obvio...